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In-Reply-To: <199704141141.VAA27032@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Apr 14, 97 09:11:32 pm"
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Michael Smith writes:
> Christoph Haas stands accused of saying:
>> On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Michael Smith wrote:
>>
>>> If you want to _interface_ it, then you are going to have to write your
>>> own keyboard interface driver, and you will need a logic/RS-232 level
>>> inverter.
>>
>> So a SUN uses a simple RS232 interface to attach its keyboard ?
>
> Yup, like many sensible workstation vendors, a real, async serial
> protocol.  None of this clocked bidirectional two-wire sync crap 8)

Wouldn't this make it more appropriate to connect to a serial port,
then?  That way you'd save on the logic glue.

Greg