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From: anothy@cos...
Subject: Re: [9fans] mice w/ >3 buttons
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:42:22 -0500

//isn't the real fear that the 3 button mouse is near extinct?

no, i don't think that's acurate. they're still quite available,
although you do have to look. the big change, i think, is these
wheel-mouse thingies, which have gained popular acceptance as a
result of the fact that M$ recognizes and uses them. that wheel,
on all the models i've seen, functions also as a middle button.
so to a user of an OS that doesn't use the wheel (as a wheel),
it simply turns into a 3 button mouse. this may finally be
signalling the death of the 2-button mouse.
-α.