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minus-squaremfed1122@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 months agoPlease explain? I get that the chubby bird is speaking assembly, but I’m sure there’s more to it than that?
minus-squarecheet@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up34·3 months agoPS2 keyboards use interrupts rather than polling in USB, meaning every time a key is pressed the CPU stops what its doing to process it.
minus-squaremfed1122@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoCool! I had no idea it was deeper than just a physical interface change.
minus-squaredrath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoI’m wondering, is it still the case for mobos with Super IO?
minus-squareDeebster@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoAnd having to pick your IRQ when installing anything into your machine, and the weird bugs that could happen if you mucked it up.
minus-squareAurelian@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months agoKeyboard slows down the CPU because it gets priority over whatever the CPU is working on so the keyboard could cause your system to lag. Back then all we had was single core CPUs.
minus-squareDoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·3 months agoMarkiplier farquad hybrid deep fried meme
Please explain? I get that the chubby bird is speaking assembly, but I’m sure there’s more to it than that?
PS2 keyboards use interrupts rather than polling in USB, meaning every time a key is pressed the CPU stops what its doing to process it.
Cool! I had no idea it was deeper than just a physical interface change.
I’m wondering, is it still the case for mobos with Super IO?
And having to pick your IRQ when installing anything into your machine, and the weird bugs that could happen if you mucked it up.
Keyboard slows down the CPU because it gets priority over whatever the CPU is working on so the keyboard could cause your system to lag.
Back then all we had was single core CPUs.
Markiplier farquad hybrid deep fried meme