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submitted 11 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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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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