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- From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
- Subject: Re: Logitech C9 Serial Mouse at 9600 Baud
- Organization: Wimsey Information Services
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:03:14 GMT
- Message-ID: <C0495F.CJ5@wimsey.bc.ca>
- Keywords: logitech serial mouse
- References: <71@shady.UUCP> <1992Dec31.063513.10725@rock.concert.net>
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- In article <1992Dec31.063513.10725@rock.concert.net> darkshot@rock.concert.net (Michael B Garrett -- Chudys) writes:
- >Query: Why in hell? What benefits are gained by running a serial mouse
- >at 9600 baud? If it's on the typical COM1, and not on a co-processed
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- It makes the mouse more responsive by reducing the latency of the data transfer.
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- >multiport server, I'd expect it to have a detrimental effect systemwide.
- >I could be wrong, but running a Telebit Worldblazer on COM2 at 9600+
- >REALLY bogs my system down.....I dunno about a mouse, but I expect it
- >would be much the same situation. Hard to say.
-
- I think it would be pretty hard to get the same data flow from a mouse as
- file xfer through a modem :-)
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