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From: paul@nessus.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Microsoft bus mouse under Unix/Xenix
Message-ID: <51@nessus.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Apr-87 14:53:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: nessus.51
Posted: Sun Apr 26 14:53:00 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 29-Apr-87 01:22:28 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Hackordie University, Santa Barbara, California
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Keywords: mouse unix xenix device driver help
Xref: utgpu comp.sys.ibm.pc:3216 comp.unix.xenix:244
Summary: I need a mouse device driver for Microport SysV.2 UNIX on an AT

The title is a tad misleading -- I would like to use my Microsoft >bus<
mouse under Unix -- however to do this, I must write a device driver (alas,
Unix doesn't use DOS drivers).

I need detailed info on how the bus version of the mouse works.  I have not
looked at it yet, but my guess is that Microsoft simply put a serial port
at some non-standard address and it dumps info the same way the serial mouse
does.  If this is not the case, how are they doing it (some sort of pulse
counter dumping results to a set of I/O ports?)

Anyway, I'd be very very very very very interested in speaking with anyone
who has worked on the mouse -- (Are any of you Microsoft guys reading?).

My system consists of an AT clone running Microport System V.2 UNIX,
however if someone has seen a Xenix device driver for the bus mouse, that
would make my life e^(pi*i) times easier.

							Thanks,
							  Paul Traina


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