Re: irrelevant ADB trivia
Re: irrelevant ADB trivia
- Subject: Re: irrelevant ADB trivia
- From: Phill Kelley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 08:55:16 +1000
At 3:37 PM -0700 13/4/03, arekkusu wrote:
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On Sunday, April 13, 2003, at 02:54 PM,
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email@hidden wrote:
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>> Its my understanding that the built in keyboard and trackpad on all
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>> Apple laptops remain ADB devices, not USB. So that does make some
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>> sense.
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> They are. Which leads to fun stuff like not being able to hold down
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> more than 3 keys at once and have the computer register them.
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That depends on the keyboard. It was true on my "Wallstreet" Powerbook
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G3, but is not true on my TiBook. I can hold down at least 8 keys
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simultaneously. Check with Key Caps.
Not that I want to start a key-pressing Olympics but I can get 9 (the whole
ASDFGHJKL) on my tiBook. It drops back to 5 if I also hold down the space
bar with my one remaining spare thumb. On the USB "extended" keyboard on my
desktop machine, I can only get 6 before it starts to behave strangely.
Presumably, at least 4 keys must also have been true for "real" ADB
keyboards, else how could we have Command, Option, P, R to reset the PRAM
and Command, Shift, Option, Delete to bypass device zero on the SCSI chain,
etc?
PK
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