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Date:      Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:19:53 -0700
From:      Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netbooks & BSD
Message-ID:  <20101020231953.GD77019@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin0e2bOM3Y_Z8pCeHU%2B_ZqMZmux=YpAXeHmDZDJ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010171215030.96626@wonkity.com> <20101019074615.GA2183@current.Sisis.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010191448390.6689@wonkity.com> <20101020022946.GA23035@thought.org> <4CBE8B86.9060608@uffe.org> <20101020173259.GD25310@thought.org> <AANLkTi=EJdFYFdHRXhbcY-TGT4JuQMtK3zfxdSY7_PrE@mail.gmail.com> <20101020211546.GA26611@thought.org> <44y69s8rse.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <AANLkTin0e2bOM3Y_Z8pCeHU%2B_ZqMZmux=YpAXeHmDZDJ@mail.gmail.com>

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Quoth David Brodbeck on Wednesday, 20 October 2010:

> Now, the USB keyboard protocol...ugh, they really dropped the ball on
> that one.  It's standardized, which is good, but it's a polling
> interface and tends to occasionally lose events under high CPU load,
> which is bad.  Especially if it's a key-up event that gets lost.

Ugh.

The silver lining: that explains a lot of omissions I was beginning to blam=
e on
senility.

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