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I always assumed because the point of the diagonal arrow cursor is located at 0,0 in the image, making the origin location of the mouse cursor image and the click point of the arrow the same. Whereas with any vertical arrow cursor, the click point would no longer line up with 0,0.
One good prank was to set someone's click point to outside the cursor.
I remember windows 3.1 had a utility for drawing custom cursors. I had great fun making cursors (I was around 10 at the time I guess) and had completed forgotten about it until now! I think that utility was a 16x16 grid, and indeed the easiest to see arrows utilsed the vertical, although actually a cursor which uses the horizontal and diagonal isn't bad either.
Actually, quite easy to put anything you wanted as a mouse pointer on the Amiga.
For HN, I expected a much deeper explanation than "it looked better on low res displays.". This isn't worth our time.
[1] at my father's office, govt agency, something like an early x window system... can't recall
ps: actually, both physical interface mesmerized me, keyboards were curious creatures for me, here's a similar model of what was used http://goo.gl/gyD7R6 ( I love the non flat keys and the 0, 00, 000 series )
We owe so much to xerox, did they ever make money off all that R&D ?
For HN, I expected a much deeper explanation than "it looked better on low res displays.". This isn't worth our time.