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support for 2 mice? 3 mice etc. CPNMOUSE for Windows (Announce)

posted by marcov, 11.08.2010, 15:48
(edited by marcov on 12.08.2010, 11:11)

> heh. I have used 3 mice on a PC but not running DOS. I can see the uses
> for 2 mice under DOS, e.g. VGA Y-cable etc but 3 mice? Still why restrict
> on numbers, I do however think it would be good to include the 100h method
> as this was supported elsewhere (i.e. for backwards compatibility reasons).

Actually X (the Linux/FreeBSD GUI system) got support for unlimited mice and keyboards.

The reason was the explosion of cheap videocards that have _many_ video (monitor) connectors, which allows, combined with mice and kbd (via USB quite many can be connected on std hw) to a multiple terminal situation on one system.

Like the mainframes of old, but with a Eur 500 Dell computer and two Eur 100 videocards you can connect many.

It's a solution for preemptive multitasking systems though.

Complete thread:

• CuteMouse v2.1b4 - some fixes - Japheth, 09.08.2010, 07:18
  • CuteMouse v2.1b4 - some fixes - swf, 09.08.2010, 17:33
    • CuteMouse v2.1b4 - some fixes - Japheth, 10.08.2010, 06:54
    • CuteMouse v2.1b4 - support for 2 mice? OptiMAME/OptiMouse - Arjay, 10.08.2010, 09:34
      • CuteMouse v2.1b4 - support for 2 mice? OptiMAME/OptiMouse - bretjohn, 10.08.2010, 18:35
        • CuteMouse v2.1b4 - support for 2 mice? OptiMAME/OptiMouse - Arjay, 10.08.2010, 18:53
          • support for 2 mice? - ecm, 10.08.2010, 19:04
            • support for 2 mice? 3 mice etc. CPNMOUSE for Windows - Arjay, 10.08.2010, 19:32
              • support for 2 mice? 3 mice etc. CPNMOUSE for Windows - ecm, 10.08.2010, 19:38
                • support for 2 mice? 3 mice etc. CPNMOUSE for Windows - Arjay, 10.08.2010, 19:53
                  • support for 2 mice? 3 mice etc. CPNMOUSE for Windows - bretjohn, 10.08.2010, 20:20
                    • support for 2 mice? 3 mice etc. CPNMOUSE for Windows - ecm, 10.08.2010, 20:35
                      • support for 2 mice? 3 mice etc. CPNMOUSE for Windows - Arjay, 10.08.2010, 20:57
                        • support for 2 mice? 3 mice etc. CPNMOUSE for Windows - ecm, 10.08.2010, 21:04
                      • support for 2 mice? 3 mice etc. CPNMOUSE for Windows - bretjohn, 10.08.2010, 21:07
                        • support for 2 mice? 3 mice etc. CPNMOUSE for Windows - ecm, 10.08.2010, 21:15
                    • support for 2 mice? 3 mice etc. CPNMOUSE for Windows - Arjay, 10.08.2010, 20:48
                      • support for 2 mice? 3 mice etc. CPNMOUSE for Windows - ecm, 10.08.2010, 20:51
                  • support for 2 mice? 3 mice etc. CPNMOUSE for Windows - ecm, 10.08.2010, 20:30
              • support for 2 mice? 3 mice etc. CPNMOUSE for Windows - marcov, 11.08.2010, 15:48
            • RS232 to keyboard / interesting keyboard hardware interfaces - Arjay, 10.08.2010, 20:10
              • RS232 to keyboard / interesting keyboard hardware interfaces - ecm, 10.08.2010, 20:38
                • RS232 to keyboard / interesting keyboard hardware interfaces - Arjay, 10.08.2010, 20:51
                  • RS232 to keyboard / interesting keyboard hardware interfaces - ecm, 10.08.2010, 20:57
                    • RS232 to keyboard / interesting keyboard hardware interfaces - Arjay, 10.08.2010, 21:11
                      • RS232 to keyboard / interesting keyboard hardware interfaces - Arjay, 10.08.2010, 21:20
                      • RS232 to keyboard / interesting keyboard hardware interfaces - ecm, 10.08.2010, 21:22
                        • RS232 to keyboard / interesting keyboard hardware interfaces - Arjay, 10.08.2010, 21:39
                          • RS232 to keyboard / interesting keyboard hardware interfaces - ecm, 10.08.2010, 21:53
                            • RS232 to keyboard / interesting keyboard hardware interfaces - bretjohn, 10.08.2010, 22:35
                          • RS232 to keyboard / interesting keyboard hardware interfaces - bretjohn, 10.08.2010, 22:08
          • Free util that supports dual Monitors under MS-DOS/FREEDOS - Arjay, 16.08.2010, 13:23
            • dual PS2 keyboards (shared output) under MS-DOS/FREEDOS - Arjay, 16.08.2010, 14:19
    • CuteMouse v2.1b4 - some fixes - Arjay, 10.08.2010, 11:08
  • CuteMouse v2.1b4 - an interesting idea from Vintage Computer - Arjay, 10.08.2010, 13:13