On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:29:34AM -0700, george anzinger wrote:
> The keyboard is, or at least depends on polling which is
> controled by a timer, thus, no timer, => no keyboard.
Eh? Sure, by a timer internal to the keyboard itself. At least x86
hardware has an interrupt wired to its keyboard controller that is used
to signal when a keystroke is available, and if you look into the driver,
you'd see that no timers are used at all.
-ben
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