• mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 day 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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        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.

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          10 hours 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.

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            18 hours ago

            Super IO does still use interrupts as far as I know. The PS/2 protocol is interrupt-driven, so it’s not possible to use a PS/2 keyboard or mouse without interrupts.

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            24 hours ago

            I know you’re probably being facetious… but the PS/2 port is what’s shown in the OP image.

            that said the Playstation 2 had USB ports, you could just plug a regular keyboard into it

      • Aurelian@lemmy.ml
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        Keyboard slows down the CPU because it gets priority over whatever the CPU is working on so the keyboard could cause your system to lag.

        Back then all we had was single core CPUs.