Subject: Re: DEC mouse hacks
To: emanuel stiebler <emu@ecubics.com>
From: Boris Gjenero <bgjenero@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/01/1998 11:06:25
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> running at 4800 Baud. rs 232 .

Yes, that more-or less means that you could connect a serial mouse if
you really wanted to.  I think that the UART is capable of other baud
rates as well.  The only problem would be the mouse protocol... it would
be incompatible with the DEC protocol.  For that you'd need to change the
driver in the kernel.  Of course, driver code for PC serial mice should be
easy to find.

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