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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: low-level keyboard interface?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.003834.24327@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 00:38:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: eng.1992Aug21.003834.24327
- References: <1992Aug20.222210.21063@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
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- In article <1992Aug20.222210.21063@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> philip@ziggy.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick) writes:
- >A friend of mine is giving an assembly language course and wants to illustrate
- >some alternative approaches to keyboard I/O including polling the VIA (all this
- >is on an SE and he is not concerned about using higher level interfaces,
- >portability, etc.)
- >
- >Any pointers, ideas etc. welcome. I can supply more detail but I suspect this
- >question is not of general interest.
-
- On an SE? Keyboard IO is done through ADB-- polling the VIA won't get
- you anything more than whether any ADB event (including mouse moves)
- takes place.
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