Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 12:51:17 +0200 From: Manuel Enrique Garcia Cuesta <megarcia@intercom.es> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Manuel Enrique Garcia Cuesta <megarcia@intercom.es>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Keyboard feel (was: internet keyboards) Message-ID: <20001008125117.B314@ilex.kicelo.org> In-Reply-To: <14812.63793.816138.593388@guru.mired.org> References: <84610204@toto.iv> <14811.59658.911452.775656@guru.mired.org> <20001005214142.A329@ilex.kicelo.org> <14812.63793.816138.593388@guru.mired.org>
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=== Mike Meyer escribia (Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:57:05PM -0500): > > While we are at it, would you oblige and educate me > > with the meaning of "n-key rollover" ? > > Rollover is the term used to describe striking more than one key at a > time. It's a problem for fast typists - they're hitting the next > key(s) before the keyboard registers the release of the previous > ones. 2-key rollover means you can hit any arbitrary key on the > keyboard, hold it down, and then hit another one and the second > registers. A good keyboard will handle arbitrary mush that way. N-key > rollover is handling larger numbers of keys. The cheaper one I would > handle all the 2-key rollover cases, but had trouble with some 3-key > ones. Aah thanks. Definitely I got quite a nasty keyboard at the office. Thanks again. > <mike > Manuel Garcia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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