Monday, 15 July 2019

Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?

quote [ Wiggling the mouse resulted in a flood of mouse-move messages, which in turn made programs wake up more often and (depending on their structure) updating their states each time, going into the message loop again, giving time to screen updates, resulting in an over all faster reaction. ]

Keep on wiggling to go faster.

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backSLIDER said @ 9:08pm GMT on 15th Jul [Score:1 Underrated]
holy shit, I thought I was crazy...
mechanical contrivance said @ 12:55pm GMT on 16th Jul
Who said you're not?
Ankylosaur said @ 2:07pm GMT on 16th Jul
The voices.
mechanical contrivance said @ 7:41pm GMT on 15th Jul
I noticed that documents scrolled faster if you wiggled the mouse, but I never noticed any other effects.

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