The mammal doesn't have a rubber-coated ball bearing.
However, if you could produce an example of a mammal containing a
rubber-coated ball bearing, we could rename the pointing device after
*that*. >:)
Julia
Jon Gabriel wrote:
>
> I always thought the mouse was the product of several million years of
> mammalian evolution?
>
> *rimshot*
>
> Jon
>
> >From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: Brin-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Apple invented the mouse
> >Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:32:38 +0000
> >
> >...as we knew it for nearly two decades. The universal design of a
> >rubber-coated ball-bearing, orthogonal pinch rollers, and optical disk
> >encoders was developed by Apple for the Lisa and Macintosh projects and
> >has little resemblance to Englebart's mouse, or the Xerox mouse.
> >
> >http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2002/marapr/features/
> >mouse.html
> >
> >Or (for more detail)
> >
> >http://library.stanford.edu/mac/mouse.html
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