Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:29:34AM -0700, george anzinger wrote:
> > The keyboard is, or at least depends on polling which is
> > controled by a timer, thus, no timer, => no keyboard.
>
> Eh? Sure, by a timer internal to the keyboard itself. At least x86
> hardware has an interrupt wired to its keyboard controller that is used
> to signal when a keystroke is available, and if you look into the driver,
> you'd see that no timers are used at all.
>
Hm? I must have been seeing double ;) Been doing that a
lot lately :(
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