rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) (05/02/91)
I bought a new mouse: Logitech Mouseman serial. Very nice, but the mouse driver (both mouse.com and mouse.sys) takes over a full second to initialize itself every time a mouse-using program is run. Interestingly, the Microsoft v 7.00 driver does the same, but the driver from my old mouse (Philips mouse, driver by Kye) initializes itself with no perceptible delay. I've measured this by writing a small program which does nothing but initialize the mouse and terminate. It runs to completion in 0.2 seconds using the Kye driver, but 1.6 with the Microsoft and 1.5 with the Logitech. The hardware is a 386-33; what can the logitech and microsoft drivers be doing that takes a full cpu second on a 386-33? //richard