And both used interchangeably in this collection of draft Mac documentation from the early 80s (it is labeled &#x27;Inside Macintosh Vol 1&#x27; but isn&#x27;t really) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;bitsavers_applemacIn84_27699101" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;bitsavers_applemacIn84_27699101</a>:<p>Cursors<p>A cursor is a small image that appears on the screen and is controlled by the mouse. (It appears only on the screen, and never in an off-screen bit image.)
Other Macintosh documentation calls this image a &quot;pointer&quot;, since it points to a location on the screen. To avoid confusion with other meanings of &quot;pointer&quot; in this manual and other Toolbox documentation, we use the alternate term &quot;cursor&quot;.