• mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
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      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
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        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.

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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.