[LispM-Hackers] Keyboard problem

[ford@objs.com]

Off the top of my head, I only have one definitive answer.  The monitor is 1024x808 landscape.

Steve

John Morrison wrote:

> Hi;
>
> The Bad News is that I can neither remember who nor find the email
> from some kind soul on this list who told me my problem with getting
> only one keyboard interrupt was because one is not really finished
> servicing a keyboard interrupt until one has read the scan code from
> I/O space.
>
> The Good News is that he was right (Thank You whoever told me), and
> now I can read repeated key presses (up events, down events, repeat
> events, etc.).
>
> Anyways, does anybody know off the top of his head what I should map
> the PC scan codes to?  Does the E2 have an equivalent low-level
> abstraction?  Does it use "fat" "characters"?  Does it get both up and
> down events?
>
> I guess I should hit the docs, eh?
>
> The other other Bad News is that I guess we will have an issue with
> supporting mice, eh?  USB?  PS/2?
>
> While I'm asking questions, is there a Single Standard Monochrome
> monitor resolution I should strive for in the hardware?  Those
> monitors in the pictures look pretty portrait-mode to me.  (I've never
> used an Explorer.)
>
> Geez.  Now back to the viewgraphs I'm engineering.  Code is SOOO much
> more satisfying.
>
> -jm
>
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