Tom Brennan wrote: >Peter Hunkeler wrote: >> The latter, mouse movement, it the most resource consuming of all the above.
>That reminds me of around 1990 running Windows 3.0, when a newly-minted >Windows Admin (used to be a mainframer) saw my habit of moving the mouse in >big circles while waiting for the machine to repond. She said I shouldn't do >that because I might crash the system. I remember thinking to myself, "So >these machines are supposed to replace the mainframe?" Haha. It reminds me of one or other software package (Cant remember the name) with a brand new part for handing rats, uh, mouses in a DOS screen. The previous version only worked with keyboard. That package worked more or less like FrameWork using EGA screen in DOS using a mix of mouse and keyboard. But, if you drag the mouse pointer to the bottom edge of the screen, the system just hangs. If you're lucky, you can get control back after a while. Apparently , some of the graphics of that pointer must be somewhere be visible on the screen. Pressing a shortcut command for say a menu item may bring the focus (and the mouse pointer) back on that menu item recovering a 'dead' / 'unresponsive' system. ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
