Re: irrelevant ADB trivia
Re: irrelevant ADB trivia
- Subject: Re: irrelevant ADB trivia
- From: The Amazing Llama <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:59:13 -0700
On Sunday, April 13, 2003, at 03:55 PM, Phill Kelley wrote:
At 3:37 PM -0700 13/4/03, arekkusu wrote:
On Sunday, April 13, 2003, at 02:54 PM,
email@hidden wrote:
Its my understanding that the built in keyboard and trackpad on all
Apple laptops remain ADB devices, not USB. So that does make some
sense.
They are. Which leads to fun stuff like not being able to hold down
more than 3 keys at once and have the computer register them.
That depends on the keyboard. It was true on my "Wallstreet" Powerbook
G3, but is not true on my TiBook. I can hold down at least 8 keys
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?
This is why Apple will soon be releasing the FireWire keyboard, where
you can hold down 2^32 keys at once (theoretically). Ah, I just can't
wait. Except that my Lombard has no FireWire.
Seth A. Roby The Amazing Llama < mail or AIM me at tallama at mac dot
com>
"Life is like an exploded clown. It's really funny until you figure out
what just happened."
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