[ale] My Next Computer

[Pete Hardie]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 02:39:26 -0500, Jason Fritcher <jkf at wolfnet.org> wrote:
> Pete Hardie wrote:
> > I'd probably need to keep a PS2 keyboard around for BIOS setup
> > out-of-the-box, of course.
> 
> No need to do that. Every system I've seen since the P2 has BIOS and chipset
> support to use USB keyboards before booting an OS. The BIOS configures the
> system chipset in such a way that it intercepts accesses to the real
> keyboard controller and redirects them to the USB keyboard/mouse. From what
> I've played around with it, even old old old DOS programs are fooled by it.

Excellent!  My plans are one step closer to World Dom^H^H^H^H^H^H
cheap computing!

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