The thing that bothers me the most here is that the meme is using 64bit assembly instructions, which did not exist at the time keyboards were using IRQs to communicate. 🤣
Did they upgrade PS/2 to use something other than interrupts? Because my earliest 64-bit CPU was in a computer manufactured in the early 00s and I’m pretty sure that mobo still had actual PS/2 ports, not USB converters or something.
And the first x86-64 processors were the AMD Opteron (servers) and the Athlon 64 (consumer-grade), both of which came out in 2003. PS/2 was still around then, so…
The thing that bothers me the most here is that the meme is using 64bit assembly instructions, which did not exist at the time keyboards were using IRQs to communicate. 🤣
Did they upgrade PS/2 to use something other than interrupts? Because my earliest 64-bit CPU was in a computer manufactured in the early 00s and I’m pretty sure that mobo still had actual PS/2 ports, not USB converters or something.
PS/2 did still use interrupts.
And the first x86-64 processors were the AMD Opteron (servers) and the Athlon 64 (consumer-grade), both of which came out in 2003. PS/2 was still around then, so…
Meme checks out.