Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!msschaa From: msschaa@cs.vu.nl (Schaap MS) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: MOUSE DRIVERS Message-ID: <7832@star.cs.vu.nl> Date: 4 Oct 90 12:53:14 GMT References: <3173@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> Sender: news@cs.vu.nl Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam Lines: 27 In article <3173@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> srini@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (K.Srinivasan) writes: >Can anybody explain why the Microsoft mouse driver has been growing >much faster than the inflation rate. The new memory hungry programs >seem to do a lot of mouse driving themselves and should infact need >less of memory resident mouse code. >MOUSE version 5.02----- 8809 bytes >MOUSE version 5.03----- 9048 bytes >MOUSE version 6.02----- 13878 bytes >MOUSE version 6.25----- 14358 bytes >MOUSE version 7.00----- 26514 bytes >MOUSE version 7.04----- 31833 bytes >MOUSE version 9.5 ----- may need more than 640 Kbytes!!!! >srini@ireq.hydro.qc.ca Could someone please Email me a copy of a 7.* mouse driver? I think that's legal, because there is no use for a mouse driver unless you have a mouse. It is very difficult for me to contact Microsoft, because I live in the Netherlands, so it would me much easier if someone sent me a copy. Thanks in advance, Michael Schaap msschaa@cs.vu.nl