Re: [WinMac] mouse delays

thorstadj(thorstadj[at]macconnect.com)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:52:50 -0700

>Try accessing a Mac Server
>> when someone is sitting at the server with the mouse button held down. It
>> can not be done because the OS sits there and waits for the mouse button to
>> be released before processing any other command. On NT this results in
>> dialog boxes and messages (I administer a network) popping up when you're
>> using the mouse and popping to the front of the screen, disrupting your
>> work. For a workstation that is terrible, but for a server where everyone
>> needs equal access at the same time it gives ever process access to the CPU.
>>
>
> good point and well stated, although the mouse-down issue has yet to
>hurt my ASIP 6.1.1 server. That is less of an OS and more of an
>application issue anymore.

Maybe I'm missing something, but are you gurus actually sitting at your
server, whatever hard/software, and holding the mouse button down? I
mean, all my computers cannot survive a fall from 100 feet onto a cement
floor, but it hasn't come up so I don't include that in my list of
requirements for purchase/use.

Jeff T
thorstadj@macconnect.com

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