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submitted 11 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 46 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago

    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.

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