• jcg@halubilo.social
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I dunno I just got it even though I didn’t specifically ever look those things up. Just by osmosis I know what assembly looks like and I’ve heard of keyboard interrupts which… Don’t those not exist anymore with USB devices or something?

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      1 year ago

      You’re correct. Modern keyboards have the CPU poll the keyboard rather than interrupting the CPU. Hardware interrupt really occurred with the old PS/2 keyboards, so this meme is technically outdated