Comment Re:Moderators on drugs? (Score 2, Interesting) 691
Some really old LCDs on early to mid 90s laptops couldn't refresh fast enough to track the mouse. My Toshiba Portege from 1997ish had already ovecome that problem.
The laptop I had prior to that (an IBM 360C with a 486) did have the problem of the cursor fading away to nothing as you moved it. Most laptops came with a mouse driver that enabled mouse "trails" so you could keep track of the cursor.
If I recall, there were still a few models available through about 1998 that didn't have active matrix or TFT LCDs, but not many.
The laptop I had prior to that (an IBM 360C with a 486) did have the problem of the cursor fading away to nothing as you moved it. Most laptops came with a mouse driver that enabled mouse "trails" so you could keep track of the cursor.
If I recall, there were still a few models available through about 1998 that didn't have active matrix or TFT LCDs, but not many.
