From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 8 3:52:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.intercom.es (relay.intercom.es [212.66.160.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C8437B66C for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 03:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lix.intercom.es (root@lix.intercom.es [212.66.160.2]) by relay.intercom.es (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA10760; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 23:22:06 +0100 Received: from intercom.es (iv2-13.intercom.es [212.66.169.13]) by lix.intercom.es (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA16412; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 12:58:55 +0100 Received: (from megarcia@localhost) by intercom.es (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e98ApHC00742; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 12:51:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from megarcia) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 12:51:17 +0200 From: Manuel Enrique Garcia Cuesta To: Mike Meyer Cc: Manuel Enrique Garcia Cuesta , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Keyboard feel (was: internet keyboards) Message-ID: <20001008125117.B314@ilex.kicelo.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Meyer , Manuel Enrique Garcia Cuesta , questions@freebsd.org References: <84610204@toto.iv> <14811.59658.911452.775656@guru.mired.org> <20001005214142.A329@ilex.kicelo.org> <14812.63793.816138.593388@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <14812.63793.816138.593388@guru.mired.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG === 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. > Manuel Garcia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message