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Subject: Re: Poor tasking performance
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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 23:58:47 GMT
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Robert I. Eachus wrote:

> the OS=20
> needs to poll the UART that buffers keyboard input at a certain rate to=
=20
> avoid losing characters.

What kind of hardware doesn't use interrupts for keyboard input?

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