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A bus mouse is a variety of PC Mouse which is attached to the computer using a specialized interface (originally, the Microsoft InPort interface developed for Microsoft's original mouse product). In the late 1980s, mice were not integrated with IBM-compatible personal computers, and the specialized bus interface (implemented via an ISA add-in card) was one of two popular ways to connect a mouse. (Serial interfaces, common on engineering Workstation s, were the other method.) When the IBM PS/2 was introduced, it included a Motherboard mouse interface which was integrated with the Keyboard controller (still called the PS/2 Mouse interface long after the PS/2 brand was withdrawn); this fairly quickly drove the bus mouse design out of the marketplace. The bus mouse lives on in the NEC PC-98 family of personal computers in Japan. EXTERNAL LINKS
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