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From: behm@zds-ux.UUCP (Brett Behm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: DOS based mouse driver wanted to buy or license.
Keywords: mouse
Message-ID: <574@zds-ux.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 91 15:20:10 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Zenith Data Systems
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Hey Netters,

Does anyone out there have a Microsoft compatible mouse driver to 
license or sell?

Here is our dilemma...  On one of our soon to be released products,
there exists an isopoint feature.  Isopoint is a gadget which is embedded
into an ALPS keyboard that emulates a mouse.  The ROM allows you to map
the isopoint to a couple of different ports including COM1 and COM2.  Since
the chip used in the isopoint is the same as for the MS serial Mouse, a
MS driver functions quite well with the isopoint.  So what is the problem?  
Microsoft will not allow us to ship the product using their driver without
a mouse.  This leaves us with one of the following options:

1. License or buy a driver from someone else.
2. Write our own.
3. Bundle a MS mouse with every machine.

The easiest and less costly of which is 1.

Brett Behm (Zenith Data Systems)
(616) 982-5579
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