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Re: A FAT32 bus mouse

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On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:57:44 -0700
"Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> wrote:

> Yes, you are probably asking, "why the heck would Ben
> ever want to include the Bus Mouse in his code, let alone
> in one of his books?"  :-)

Bingo!  There is no real point in anything pre-PS/2 port.

Although, I do have a mouse card (RS-232C) in the old 233Mhz.
This was a PC standard pre-PS/2 port.  But, you're not talking
about that are you?  You're talking about the original M$
bus mouse here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_mouse

(Um, yeah, that's even more questionable Ben ... ;-)

> Bernhard, I am sure I have asked you this before, but
> how do you get your posts to all be justified? (the text,
> not the content.) :-)

He-he, I didn't notice that.  I see it now though.  He
could get free-lance work at any online newspaper.

> Anyway, I think I know why Mike has created the Virtual
> FAT32 concept and I may go investigate it a bit more.
> He is just like me, and probably the rest of us, messed
> up beyond words, but enjoy the hobbies we have. :-)

My guess is that it pairs with his SudoBIOS extender and goes
with the 16-bit IO.SYS or other device driver code from MS-DOS
v7.10 (Windows 98/SE) that he is using.  Good guess? ...  E.g.,
perhaps he is shoving the 32-bit layer back one more level.

Mike can be rather terse at times.  So, it's not always
obvious to me what he is getting at.  Sorry Mike.  I'd
rather have a description of where I could or why I
should use his stuff than all the technical details up
front, but we still need that stuff after the fact.


Rod Pemberton

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A FAT32 bus mouse "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2016-04-01 11:57 -0700
  Re: A FAT32 bus mouse "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2016-04-01 21:41 +0200
  Re: A FAT32 bus mouse Bernhard Schornak <schornak@web.de> - 2016-04-01 23:15 +0200
  Re: A FAT32 bus mouse Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-04-01 21:23 -0400
    Re: A FAT32 bus mouse "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-03 08:50 -0400
      Re: A FAT32 bus mouse James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-04 14:19 +0100

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