Chapter 7. The Mouse
The mouse is a pointing device with one or more buttons. Despite much experimentation with other alternative input devices such as touch screens and light pens, the mouse reigns supreme. Together with variations such as trackballs, which are common on laptop computers, the mouse is the only alternative input device to achieve a massive—virtually universal—penetration in the PC market.
This was not always the case. Indeed, the early developers of Microsoft Windows felt that they shouldn’t require users to buy a mouse in order to use the product. So they made the mouse an optional accessory and provided a keyboard interface to all operations in Windows and the “applets” distributed with Windows. (For example, check out the help ...
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