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then@snakemail.hut.fi (Tomi  H Engdahl) writes:

 >In bus mouses sytem, the mouse is just a device with movement detectors
 >and buttons. The movement data decoding is done in mouse card, which 
 >keeps track on mouse movements (counts movement detector pulses and generates
 >interrupts).

 >In serial mouse, there is a little micropprocessors in the mouse. It keeps
 >track on the mouse movement detector pulses and button states. When the
 >mouse states chanegs in some way (it moves or buttorn is peressed or released)
 >it sends a data packet to computer, in which it tells the current mouse state.
 >The data is in normal RS-232C serial format. Microsoft mouse uses 3 byte
 >data packets and Mouse Systems mouses uses 5 byte packets.



Thanks for all the generous replies!

I have one more question. :-)  Would any bus mouse work on any bus mouse
card? IE, IBM bus mouse on my Microsoft bus mouse card. They seem to have
the same connector.
Thanks in advance.