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From: lmb7421@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Les Barstow: Phoenix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: finder follies
Message-ID: <2252@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 90 15:55:20 GMT
References: <10675.infoapple.net@pro-generic>
Reply-To: lmb7421@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Les Barstow: Phoenix)
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In article <10675.infoapple.net@pro-generic> sb@pro-generic.cts.com (Stephen Brown) writes:
>
> Why isn't there a 'mouse'
>driver, a 'joystick' driver, a 'keyboard' driver, etc.? The keyboard could
>always be the default in case no other input devices were present. It just
>seems that to be consistent, you have to consider the "I" in I/O as well as
>just the "O".
>
There is a keyboard driver - it's called the Console Driver, and covers
both keyboard input and monitor output.  It is very powerful, and much
faster than the TextTools toolset.  

What would you read with a mouse driver?  3 bytes?  The current toolbox
interface for the mouse has a much more realistic way of dealing with
things...  Same goes for joystick and other devices like this...

Les Barstow
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