"Console mode mouse support. Mouse support in textmode applications is an unusual concept. At first it seems counterproductive: after all, if you wanted a mouse present, why not just run a native gui application? But terminals going as far back as the tektronix lines and old xerox machines have had pointing devices long before Microsoft Windows was a reality. There have been applications in the dos world such as Desqview, and wordperfect and the ability to perform gui-like functions such as highlighting, insertion-point setting, and using even a textmode browser prove remarkably useful."