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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Logitech's Mouse with Plus Software !
Message-ID: <1735@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 10:57:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 29 10:57:08 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 1-Jul-87 02:02:38 EDT
References: <822@puff.WISC.EDU> <1731@nicmad.UUCP> <1666@uwmacc.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
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Keywords: Need info on it !

In article <1666@uwmacc.UUCP> anderson@uwwircs.UUCP (Jess Anderson) writes:
<In article <1731@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes:
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<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. 

A Logitech Mouse is programmable in the sense that it can be told what baud
rate to use, report rate and type of mouse to look like.  There are 6
different protocols that it can be told to use (type of mouse to look like).
Because the MS mouse is two buttons, it can also be told to look like a
two button mouse, with the middle button acting like you pressed both of
the outside buttons, at the same time.
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