Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord
From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: MS-Mouse driver version 7.04
Message-ID: <6374@bwdls58.bnr.ca>
Date: 4 Apr 91 13:56:38 GMT
References: <25180@hydra.gatech.EDU> <7930@hsv3.UUCP>
Sender: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca
Reply-To: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <7930@hsv3.UUCP> jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman) writes:
<You say that all the machines are using C&T chipsets, but my guess is that
<you are mistaken.  The way that the pointer is done is by using the built-in
<hardware cursor on Video-7 boards.  The one machine on which it works must
<have a Video-7 (or OEM equivalent) board in it.

Are you sure?  This has been discussed before and the consensus was that
Microsoft is doing what NORTON 5.0 does -- reprogramming the font on the fly
to simulate a graphics cursor in text mode.  A person from the net has even
figured out how to do this independantly, and has placed the source code for
it (along with a demo) on Simtel20 for all to see.. including Microsoft.

All that is required is a VGA card.  *Any* VGA card.  (EGA also ok??)
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