Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!mhs108 From: MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu (Mark Solsman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Serial or Bus mouse? Message-ID: <90312.213932MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu> Date: 9 Nov 90 02:39:32 GMT References: Organization: Penn State University Lines: 18 >>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 I have a Microsoft Mouse, ImPort Version, along with 4 serial ports and 2 parallel ports. The Mouse Doesn't interfere w/ any of the comm ports. In fact I do high speed telecomm (19200bps) off of a 16550uart w/ no problems. I do have a problem with parallel #2 however, I must use a dynamic timer 'cause when I set PrintCache to work off the ints and I move the mouse...BANG! (but that is because my system is filled up!) ---- Mark Solsman The Pennsylvania State University - Worthington Campus, Scranton, Pa. Bitnet : MHS108 at PSUVM Internet : MHS108 at PSUVM.PSU.EDU