• mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

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

    • cheet@infosec.pub
      4·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Deebster@infosec.pub
        0·
        2 months ago

        And having to pick your IRQ when installing anything into your machine, and the weird bugs that could happen if you mucked it up.

        • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

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

    • Aurelian@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 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.