Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!SORROW@MAPLE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU From: sorrow@oak.circa.ufl.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Buying a Mouse: Serial or Bus? Message-ID: <0094A36D.CAC8D820@MAPLE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU> Date: 16 Jun 91 18:20:50 GMT References: <13487@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <0094A2A8.5A473A80@MAPLE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU>,<1991Jun15.221055.7784@rock.concert.net> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: sorrow@oak.circa.ufl.edu Organization: University of Florida CIRCA VAX Cluster Lines: 35 In article <1991Jun15.221055.7784@rock.concert.net>, boyd@cs.unca.edu (Mark Boyd) writes: |>Cheap mice are available for both serial and bus interfaces. Cheap mice |>are available with wide ranges of DPI. Take a look a the ads in |>Computer Shopper. So says that all cheap mice |>are serial and 200 DPI! Sheesh, that is simply not true. Sorry if I was incorrect, but in my experience I have YET to see a cheap bus mouse. Hell, I haven't seen a bus mouse that was not made by a "big" company such as Logitech or Microsoft. |> |>Cheap mice are, probably, not as sturdy as expensive mice, but my |>experience with them has been very positive! I have a cheap 3 button |>mouse with widely variable DPI and a good ballistic response. It works |>very well. I have a much more expensive two button mouse. It never |>worked very well. Well, if you are talking "Expensive two button mouse" you probably mean a Microsoft. It's a shame yours doesn't work well since everyone else I know finds them one of the best, if not THE best. As for a "widely variable DPI". Well, you still probably have 200 dpi mouse but you have the wonderful world of ballistic software that gives you the range of 20-800 dpi. To me, software accuracy is not as important as hardware accuracy. I like to have a consistent feel for my mouse instead of having to move it at a crawl to get accuracy and then snapping it with my wrist to get response. /* Brian Hook -- MS-DOS Programmer for Contract ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Seamus, that's my dog...I saw her today at the reception...sorry, sixTEEN inches....better save the women and children first...but this one goes to 11! ..anymore of that plutonium nyborg?....there can be only ONE!....like a finger pointing to the moon....ease the seat back...one day closer to death */