Netbooks & BSD

Chip Camden sterling at camdensoftware.com
Wed Oct 20 23:19:58 UTC 2010


Quoth David Brodbeck on Wednesday, 20 October 2010:

> Now, the USB keyboard protocol...ugh, they really dropped the ball on
> that one.  It's standardized, which is good, but it's a polling
> interface and tends to occasionally lose events under high CPU load,
> which is bad.  Especially if it's a key-up event that gets lost.

Ugh.

The silver lining: that explains a lot of omissions I was beginning to blame on
senility.

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