• Fridgeratr@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Modern USB keyboards need to be asked what’s being pressed by the CPU multiple times a second, but old PS/2 keyboards will actually interrupt the CPU to send the key press command

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      10 months ago

      Oh, didn’t actually know what’s being done behind the scene…

      Why is this relevant to Linux only?

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          10 months ago

          Hm… then why is it posted in a Linux comm?

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            10 months ago

            It’s kind of a tradition among the r*ddit refugees from s*bs like linuxmemes and linuxmasterrace. Posting things that aren’t strictly linux-related, but would still be appreciated in general by computer nerds.

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              Ah, didn’t know that 👍.