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From: wajda@tellabs.com (Rich Wajda)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DEC Mouse and Windows 386
Message-ID: <5035@tellab5.tellabs.com>
Date: 12 Jan 91 04:14:02 GMT
References: <1991Jan8.123349.1741@sa.gov.au> <1991Jan10.074518.3061@monsanto.com> <91010.132200KENCB@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
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In article <91010.132200KENCB@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> KENCB@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
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>*However*, we have not been able to make the three-button DEPCA-attached
>mouse work since Windows 2 (or 286, whatever it was called).  I find this
>extremely annoying and I've told DEC so.  I spent about 6 weeks last Spring
>trying to get a solution out of Atlanta to no avail.  There is a DEPCA
>mouse driver "hidden" in one of the subdirectories of the PC Client
>piece of the software, I think its the one the original poster was talking
>about, but it "not supported": some DEC employee wrote it on his own time
>and it doesn't quite work (crashes the PC, etc.).
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I have used the DEC mouse with Windows 2.x and 3.0.  The driver I used
came with with PCSA 2.x (which included MS Windows 2.0).  However, in
upgrading my PC to Win3, the driver would cause Windows to abort if 
running in 'standard' mode.  The only way around this was to start 
Windows with the /r option to force 'real' mode operation, at the 
expense of all that extra memory I otherwise could have used.
As far as the board Rev level, I used Rev E02 in my PC but other 
machines I supported used F & G as well.  These all seem to work the 
same way (insofar as Windows is concerned).


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 Rich Wajda             |   "The impossible often has a kind of integrity
 wajda@tellabs.com      |    to it which the merely improbable lacks."
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