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- From: "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 23:35:56 +0100
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- Subject: Re: Walker compatible
- Message-ID: <13213950@sourcery.han.de>
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- In Article <4kvg93$kcu@bsdi.data.net.mx>, Mauricio De la Orta <iinfo@iinfo.net> wrote:
- > It would be a nice idea to have a port for a standard PC serial mouse
- > in the walker (read, an extra serial port). PC mouses are really cheaper
- > than amiga ones, by a factor of up to 300%.
-
- This has been discussed, but there is a problem other than price: providing
- downward compatibility to the existing mouse interface will be difficult. Not
- every program plays by the rules and uses the operating system interface to the
- mouse hardware interface. For some applications having an additional serial
- port might be more useful than an option to plug in a cheap serial mouse.
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