Tom Walker wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

->  JH> PS/2 mouses don't like being hot-swapped anyway,

-> No?  I guess not,  though I don't know why that should be.  I remember at
 TW> that
-> place I was working they re-routed some cables for me one time and
-> I had to
-> re-boot to get the mouse working again.

 TW>  Taht is the way IBM designed the PS2 port. IF you forget to plug
 TW> in the mouse you need to Re-Boot to get it to work. You do get a
 TW> warning on boot up though. At least with Win9x

It was't 9x,  but NT...  I still wasn't all that impressed.

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