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From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Mice
Summary: He posted to the right group, after all.
Keywords: mouse protocols
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.194600.6100@rand.org>
Date: 13 Nov 90 19:46:00 GMT
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In article <16499@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> garlange@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Garlanger) writes:
>In article <2431@wn1.sci.kun.nl> ge@wn3.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers) writes:
>>
>>This is all pointless to me. The mouse is not connected to a system with an
>>Intel processor, or MS-DOS.
>
>Then why are you posting to comp.sys.IBM.PC?  Next time post in the area
>that relates to what you are doing.

He knows what he's doing, Mark.  This newsgroup probably has the highest
likelihood of being able to answer his question.  After all, the mice in
question are all made to connect to IBM PC's and their moral
equivalents.  He is interested in the protocol they use in communicating
through the serial interface.  Description of MS-DOS software is
meaningless to him--after all, he asked a HARDWARE question in the
most approrpriate HARDWARE group.  If he wanted to know about TSR's and
mouse drivers, he'd have posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer.

I'm interested in the same question.  I'm sending him what little
information I've managed to scrape together.  I hope that someone
else who knows more is able to enlighten us.

		-Ed Hall
		edhall@rand.org