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cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
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Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months
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Scott Long wrote:
> Robert Huff wrote:
> 
>> Marcel Moolenaar writes:
>>
>>
>>> > 1.  Keyboard multiplexer.
>>>
>>> I actually fail to stop thinking about a complete syscons and
>>> pcvt replacement. You know, the one and only console
>>> implementation that makes all others obsolete. Big plans, little
>>> time, yada yada yada...
>>
>>
>>
>>     As long as we're talking about keyboards ... may I add "Get the
>> boot code to recognize USB keyboards."
>>     (Unless this has already happened and I missed the meno.
>> Again.)
>>
>>
>>                 Robert Huff
>>
> 
> Are you talking about putting a minimal USB stack into the boot loader?
> That _certainly_ cannot fit into boot0, and I doubt that it can fit into
> boot1.  It might be possible for boot2/BTX/loader, but that's also quite
> a bit of work.  I take it that your BIOS does not provide keyboard
> emulation for you?  If not, I guess that it makes it difficult to boot
> to DOS.

that's what "Legacy USB support" is in the BIOS.


> 
> Scott
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