Subj : Re: Argh!
To   : Digital Man
From : John Guillory
Date : Mon Apr 18 2005 09:53 am

  Re: Re: Argh!
  By: Digital Man to Angus Mcleod on Sun Apr 17 2005 12:50 pm

 > *I* wouldn't switch to a USB keyboard and mouse until/unless you have a syst
 > that's supports them out-of-box (at the BIOS level). If I need to boot to DO
 > or whatever, I want to make sure my input devices are still going to work.
That's along the lines of what I was going to say.  My Compaq has BIOS support
for it, and in DOS it acts like a PS/2 keyboard.  DOS knows no difference what
soever.  The only thing I have to say about everyone wanting a USB keyboard is
when you bog down your system, you'll occasionally loose a few characters hear
and there.... Where as with PS/2, if the system got bogged down heavily,
assuming it recovered eventually, it'd eventually start spewing out all kinds
of keys that I've been typing while it was trying to recover....  Just seems
like the USB bus isn't quite as high up on the priorities when memory gets used
up.....  When the computer's begging for mercy, it tends to not worry with the
USB port... ;-)


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