Re: Keyboards

[just.dave@genie.com]

Dark_Dude@darkcastle.ecore.fnet.org (Dark_Dude) writes:

>>That's wonderful, except I don't think that the ADB standard defines a way
>>to tell which keypress comes from which keyboard.  Besides, even on the

>Hmm, I don't know. In fact, I know _very little_ about hardware.

Actually, I believe the ADB standard DOES define a way to tell which
keypress came from which keyboard.  In fact, each device on the ADB chain is
assigned a unique ID (just like SCSI, but they're assigned dynamically), and
each device sends this ID with it's event codes.  However, I don't believe
the ROM code that deals with the ADB port can deal with more than one
keyboard device, so it just pretends they're the same one.  I'm sure a
creative programmer could bypass the ROM code and figure out hoe to seperate
them.  But the ADB is a pain-in-the-you-know-where to program directly. :)
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