Posted by Ron Michallick on 20, 2001 at 5:00 PM:
In Reply to: Re: 3 Key Presses---(I know it wasn't directed to me.. but..) posted by Andy Warne on 20, 2001 at 2:53 PM:
:Regarding USB..But this advantage is more than :cancelled out by the USB drivers on the PC which :actually (believe it or not!) reformat the USB :data byte into PS/2 style key codes and send it :to the ordinary keyboard driver.
There is a lot of keyboard protocol complexity
built into computers just to make everything
look like a XT type keyboard to programs. The
codes sent by an AT keyboard are translated at
least two times before the programs get them.
I don't have any solutions at the moment, but
I'll give it more thought.
Ron.