Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!mo@lbl-csam From: mo%lbl-csam@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.works Subject: non-linear mousing Message-ID: <12139@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 14:07:11 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12139 Posted: Mon Aug 6 14:07:11 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Aug-84 19:57:57 EDT Lines: 13 From: (Mike O'Dell[x-csam]) mo@lbl-csam I believe the Evans and Sutherland Knob Box was the first place I saw using the acceleration to select different bits of the counters to clock. I have long believed this behaviour is desirable. Another good place is in radio receivers with synthesized front-ends: you need 10 Hz resolution for some things, but having to push buttons is a pain to change speeds. Simply using the rate to determine the rate would make it soo much easier. To go fast, go fast. To go precisely, move slowly. Sounds like the way people work already! How come it doesn't seem to be more widely implemented? (I hav heard the Symbolics does it.) -Mike