Foone🏳️⚧️ on Nostr: Given that PS/2 keyboard/mice are electrically compatible and just use a different ...
Given that PS/2 keyboard/mice are electrically compatible and just use a different protocol, imagine how much better the PC could have been for the entire 90s if they'd just bothered to write some code to make PS/2 port firmware autodetect which one they're talking to. You could have just had PS/2 ports, no need for keyboard + mouse
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