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On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 02:03:54PM +0000, dsr@tao.merseine.nu wrote:

> Actually, changes were made explicitly to support reconnection. When a
> motherboard maker specifies an 8042-functional equivalent, "hot swap"
> is one of the available features.
> 
> Some of the newest chips are actually zero-power when not receiving
> data: the incoming signal from keyboard or mouse wakes them up.

   Cool.  I guess I was about half wrong.  Of course, there are still
problems with real cheap mechanical switches.  I've seen ones that
don't break before make, and that don't connect all of the pins
simultaneously.  IOW, I've seen some ugly things happen when switching
between systems.


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Matt Brodeur                                                            RHCE
MBrodeur@NextTime.com                                http://www.NextTime.com

Say after me slowly: I AM WE TODD DID... I AM SOFA KING WE TODD DID
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