Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/11/08:03:38
On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Ian 'DrDebug' Day wrote:
> >> C or ASM is fine. I personally would prefer that DOS code is
> >> written in ASM as much as possible though. Reason: SIZE!!!!! I
> >> have a 19k mouse driver. My friend's mouse driver is 9k. They
> >> are both dated from the same time. Why is mine 19k? Probably
> >> because it is written in C! (It is, I've examined it's memory
> >> wastage in memory with debug).
> >
> >This is a bit off-topic, but for those of you fed up with large mouse
> >drivers, there is a driver called cutemouse 1.2 (ctmous12.zip I think)
> >
> >It is 7k long, and 95% microsoft compatible.
> >
> >I found it somewhere on simtel, and it is quite good..
> >
> >Hope that's useful, and hope there isn't a huge mouse driver thread coming..
>
> 19K, pah, that's nothing. Some of the latest M$ mouse drivers are in
> excess of 80K! I mean, WTF? Why?
I'm talking 19k resident, from a 40k mouse driver file. Are you
talking an 80k EXE or are you talking 80k resident? If you
mean an 80k EXE, what is the resident size? If you mean 80k
resident then I must also say WTF? I hope that VERY soon we have
DPMS drivers for all of the following:
MOUSE, CDROM, VESA (ala UNIVBE), SB16, IPX/TCPIP and other
network related drivers, F*CK - ALL DRIVERS!!!!!!!
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