Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!watstat.waterloo.edu!dmurdoch From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Serial or Bus mouse? Message-ID: <1990Nov6.145656.8146@maytag.waterloo.edu> Date: 6 Nov 90 14:56:56 GMT References: Sender: daemon@maytag.waterloo.edu (Admin) Organization: University of Waterloo Lines: 20 In article jc58+@andrew.cmu.edu (Johnny J. Chin) writes: >I personally prefer a BUS mouse. I am now using a Logitech C9 bus mouse >and very happy with it. I prefer Logitech's bus mouse because it allows me >to choose the interrupt I wish to use. Microsoft doesn't. In matter of >fact, if you choose to go Microsoft, it wouldn't matter if you chose a bus >or serial mouse. They both will be using a serial port address. Not true with current versions of the bus MS mouse: mine allows you to choose between 4 IRQ lines. I forget which I/O port it used, or whether you're allowed to change it, but the ATI VGA Wonder uses ports which don't conflict with the COM ports, and works fine with the MS Mouse device driver. (I don't use the MS Mouse any more, now that I've got a bus mouse built in to the video card.) Duncan Murdoch That is >also why I got a bus mouse. Logitech's bus mouse frees up my serial port >for use with a modem. I currently have two modems (completely different >types of modems, of course - one Hayes and one DOV 640).