Subj : Re: Computer Broken
To   : apam
From : tenser
Date : Thu Sep 11 2025 01:44:22

(oops, hit send too early.)

On 09 Sep 2025 at 09:11p, apam pondered and said...
 
 ap> It would be nice to have it work on a real PC again, but it's a 32bit OS
 ap> with no usb stack - so finding a computer with a PS/2 mouse and Keyboard
 ap> port is tricky - sometimes that USB compatibility works, sometimes it
 ap> doesn't, but I guess what I really need is a USB stack - so maybe that
 ap> will be my next project.

Yeah, usually the PS/2 emulation stuff for USB devices runs
in SMM handlers, using firmware provided by the mainboard vendor.
It's all super janky, and better to just write a proper USB
driver/stack.  It's not an awesome standard, though; the level
of complexity is out of control.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

.