Re: Keyboard error
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
12 Aug 1997 00:31:41 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970811142239.1531A-100000@mabs.netdig.com.au>
By author: Marcus Berglund <mabs@netdig.com.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Linus is on the right track here, basically some more expensive keyboards
> can take upto 7 keypresses (or more) at once, I found this out on a
> friends keyboard, two players on one computer/keyboard setup, and
> generally on cheap keboards you can get away 3 keypresses before you get a
> keyboard "lock", does anybody remember how DOS/BIOS complains:
> <bleep><bleep><bleep><bleep>....
>
> My keyboard does 6 keys bofore it stops sending anything (no errors,
> about AUS$100)
>
The annoying part of all of this is that this could easily be reduced
to a non-issue if keyboard manufacturers would only put a diode in
series with each keyswitch...
-hpa
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