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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 19:35:38 +0000
To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
From: "Ian 'DrDebug' Day" <Ian AT darkblak DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: [opendos] 7k mouse driver
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In article <199702071659 DOT QAA22809 AT milly>, MORRIS JP
<jpmorris AT csm DOT uwe DOT ac DOT uk> writes
>> 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?

-- 
DrDebug

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