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Re: Worst design decisions?
From: Justin Shore <listuser () numbnuts net>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:21:47 -0500 (CDT)
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Todd Vierling wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 up () 3 am wrote: : Without a question: PS/2 style keyboard and mouse connectors. Impossible : to tell from each other, And this part is somewhat funny, too, because the PS/2 connector layout is capable of having both devices share the same bus (there's two unconnected pins, which some laptops use to provide alternate CLK/DATA signals). If PS/2 mice used the unconnected pins rather than the same CLK/DATA pins as the keyboard, all machines could simply have two connectors using all six pins and you'd be able to plug either device into either socket.
In other words it should work like Apple's ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) ports do (did until they moved to USB). I really miss those ports. Justin
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- Re: Worst design decisions?, (continued)
- Re: Worst design decisions? David Lesher (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Todd Vierling (Sep 18)
- RE: Worst design decisions? Mark Borchers (Sep 19)
- RE: Worst design decisions? Chris Horry (Sep 19)
- RE: Worst design decisions? Alex Rubenstein (Sep 19)
- Re: Worst design decisions? David Lesher (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Brian Bruns (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? (Cisco 4x00 rails) Mark Rogaski (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? up (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Todd Vierling (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Justin Shore (Sep 18)
- RE: Worst design decisions? Bob German (Sep 18)
- RE: Worst design decisions? Wojtek Zlobicki (Sep 20)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Nathan J. Mehl (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? E.B. Dreger (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Dominic J. Eidson (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Brian Bruns (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Ryan Tucker (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Aaron Dewell (Sep 18)