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Re:Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run m... by shawnz on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @10:33AM (#20344607)
It's not clear that this is caused by the same effect. A commenter suggests that this behaviour is actually due to how mouse acceleration affects scrolling speed which I am more inclined to believe.
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Re:Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run m... by kllrnohj on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:00PM (#20345486)
Yeah there is no way this has anything to do with the same behavior. What's likely happening is there's a delay in auto-scroll, and by generating new mouse events your triggering manual scrolls at a higher rate (or in addition to?) than auto-scroll.
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Re:Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run m... by codedokode on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @09:04PM (#20350610)
I think it is not acceleration, but rather a position of mouse relative to the edge of a window.
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