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From: david@eng.sun.com (Know Your Goldfish)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Hardware mice pointers
Message-ID: <137423@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 16 Jun 90 05:38:32 GMT
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In article <1308@nyx.UUCP> jgriffit@nyx.UUCP (Jonathan C. Griffitts) writes:
>In case this issue comes up again, I'd like to know what the consensus is 
>about this.  Can X windows [sic] take advantage of a hardware mouse cursor?

Sure.  Examples:

DECstations running DECwindows.

Sun workstations with GX frame buffers running OpenWindows.

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David DiGiacomo, Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, CA  david@eng.sun.com