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echo: os2prog
to: Coridon Henshaw
from: Mikael Kjellstrm
date: 1996-03-06 11:13:20
subject: Scroll question

> MB> Try "DIR C:\ /S > NUL" and you will not see any
jerkiness in the
 > mouse.  What
 > MB> is happening is that the mouse movements are being processed by the
 > operating
 > MB> system, but the screen cannot be updated quickly enough to show it.
 >
 > Close, but no cigar :-).

You're wrong :-)


 > The mouse flicker problem is caused by video cards that don't have
 > hardware sprite/cursor support.

It has NOTHING to do with that.  The mousepointer isn't flickering.  It's
the positioning of the mouse pointer thats get close to no CPU at all.

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