Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 7 Jan 1997 21:26:37 +0000 (GMT) | From | Philip Blundell <> | Subject | Re: Display and keyboard drivers configuration option for embedded systems |
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On 7 Jan 1997, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Not really. The keyboard port really *is* just a serial port (with a > non-UART hardware interface very similar or possibly identical to the > PS/2 mouse port) and we're already doing SLIP and PPP as line > disciplines. It might be useful to do a keyboard line discipline
I believe the hardware _is_ identical. It would be amusing for somebody to do a driver so that you could plug a second keyboard into your PS/2 mouse port. Quite what you'd do with it then, I'm not sure, but I imagine people will think of something, given a sufficiently sick imagination. I suppose buying VGA cards and PS/2 mouse interfaces is cheaper than buying computers, and you could theoretically devise some scheme to pair up screens and keyboards with virtual consoles...
P.
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