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From: cory@three.MV.COM (Cory Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Macintosh OS
Message-ID: <366@three.MV.COM>
Date: 11 Jun 90 02:37:44 GMT
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JONESD@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (David Jones) writes:

>Do Macintosh keyboards generate interrupts (talking about hardware in
>comp.arch, how strange :-)?  The software environment sure wants to behave
>as if the I/O devices are strictly polled.

No.  Keyboards, at least those on the Mac SE, Mac II and later systems,
are on a bus.  They get polled.  As does the mouse.  Or trackball.

+C
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