On Wednesday February 28 1996 at 00:47, Mike Bilow wrote to Mikael Kjellstr”m:

 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 :-).

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

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