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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 15:09:01 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>, Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
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Subject: Re: Input issues - key down with no key up
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Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > > The PS/2 keyboard protocol is utterly absurd.
> > Yep. It's a dozen or more years of hack upon a hack.
>  Well, mode #3 with no translation in the i8042 looks quite sanely. 

What are the known problems with mode #3, then?

That is, why doesn't everyone use it and why haven't they always used it?

For that matter, what does Windows use?

-- Jamie