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> But you're not paying attention : it is NOT POSSIBLE to 
> detect keystrokes on the console while the device probes are running,
> because interrupts are Turned Off.

So *poll* the keyboard controller, and use that for your DELAY().


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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