• mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Please explain? I get that the chubby bird is speaking assembly, but I’m sure there’s more to it than that?

    • cheet@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Deebster@infosec.pub
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        1 year ago

        And having to pick your IRQ when installing anything into your machine, and the weird bugs that could happen if you mucked it up.

        • Taleya@aussie.zone
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          1 year ago

          I remember manually programming the cylinders and heads on a hdd into the bios. Kids these days got it easy