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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Serial mouse in a parallel port?
Message-ID: <192@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 89 16:37:52 GMT
References: <KPETERSEN.12540399107.BABYL@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
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In article <KPETERSEN.12540399107.BABYL@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> DJOHNSON%CH3@sc.intel.COM ("Don Johnson x2908 ms:c3-89 Pole: H5") writes:
<Greetings,
<
<I know the parallel port is bi-directional.  Has anyone tried to interface
<a mouse thru the parallel port?  Is it possible to modify the driver
<software to look at the parallel port as opposed to the serial port?  Or do
<I lose my interrupt capability?

The serial mouse MUST use a serial port.  The serial and parallel ports are
two completely different beasts.
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