Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Hardware mice pointers (Re: 386 machines are workstations? (Sun/386i)) Message-ID: Date: 15 Jun 90 15:23:30 GMT References: <136288@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <6537@vax1.acs.udel.EDU> <11876@cbmvax.commodore.com> <2264@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9 In article wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) writes: > when you move your mouse, > you need to erase the old cursor, draw a new one, check to see if it > has crossed a window boundary and such. Or you can just write new X and Y values into the hardware mouse pointer registers and forget about it. Why haven't hardware pointers caught on, then? It can't be the hardware cost or complexity: the necessary hardware has been part of cheap 8-bit computers for the past 10 years. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.