• jcg@halubilo.social
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I dunno I just got it even though I didn’t specifically ever look those things up. Just by osmosis I know what assembly looks like and I’ve heard of keyboard interrupts which… Don’t those not exist anymore with USB devices or something?

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      1 year ago

      You’re correct. Modern keyboards have the CPU poll the keyboard rather than interrupting the CPU. Hardware interrupt really occurred with the old PS/2 keyboards, so this meme is technically outdated

    • astropenguin5@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Same, I don’t even really know what assembly looked like (now I do I guess) but it just seemed like it was probably basic instructions, and knowing the meme is the yellow one interrupting the other and it would make sense that a keyboard would interrupt. Didn’t even know ps/2 keyboards interrupting was a thing