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From: anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Logitech's Mouse with Plus Software !
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Date: Sat, 27-Jun-87 14:19:44 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 27 14:19:44 1987
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Keywords: Need info on it !

In article <1731@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes:
]In article <822@puff.WISC.EDU> yao-chun@puff.WISC.EDU (Yao-chung Lee) writes:

]<Has anyone come into contact with it, how is the
]<feel, is it better than mouse systems or MS mouse?

]<Is the software that come with it good ?

]<Could I use the mouse with non-mouse applications
]<by programming it ?

]I personally like the mouse.  Some people I work with like the Mouse System's
]optical mouse.  But it isn't programmable.

I don't know in quite what sense you mean programmable, Mike.  I have an
MS bus mouse at work and a Mouse Systems bus mouse at home. The Mouse
Systems rodent has a flexible pop-up menu language and an associated
compiler (included), plus a programming language interface to access
mouse system calls from IBM's BASIC interpreter, from assembler programs,
and from compiled languages like C, Pascal (and Turbo Pascal), COBOL,
Fortran, and BASIC. 

From a "look and feel" point of view, the Mouse Systems device works
transparently in all contexts I've tried the same as the MS mouse (e.g.,
MS Word).  I find the optical mouse a good deal smoother to use, in
the mechanical sense.  A particular point for those with big hands
(me for one) is that the MS mouse is too small (narrow) for comfort.
The Mouse Systems critter fits much better between thumb and pinkie.

Disclaimer: I have no connection with any of the relevant commerical
interests. 
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