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

posted by ecm Homepage E-mail, Düsseldorf, Germany, 10.08.2010, 20:35

> I'm personally not sure I would like the idea of independent mice
> (including multiple mouse cursors) or independent keyboards (including
> keyboard cursors), if for no other reason than the amount of physical space
> required on the desk/table.

In case you're interested, my need would be to use one computer simultaneously with two users. I already have two screens, so this special mouse/keyboard driver would effectively split up the whole interface as if the two sets of screen/mouse/keyboard were two terminals. But without most of the software support and hardware required for a real terminal server. Anyway, even two mouse cursors without the keyboard splitting are useful for our need.

> I really doubt that DOS (at the native OS level) will ever directly support
> multiple monitors, anyway -- DOS's current support of video output is, to
> put it politely, limited.

For DOS, there's one screen and one keyboard. That's it. Anything beyond that (you see, even a single mouse) must be managed by additional drivers.

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