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zumphry
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micolithe
@micolithe

So a quick google to verify my memory says PS/2 supported unlimited N-Key Rollover, but this absolutely does not line up with my memories of needing to press like six keys at once in a videogame and hearing beeping come out of the speaker on my motherboard indicating I was firing off too many simultaneous keypresses.


queerinmech
@queerinmech

Ben Eater did a video on this using an oscilloscope!

he even covers the difference between crappy keyboards that can only handle a couple of keys and those that can do lots

i just rewatched this video like 2 weeks ago, it's really good stuff!


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in reply to @micolithe's post:

That would probably be a cheap keyboard membrane where so many keys share a connection that pressing certain combination results in gibberish keycodes.

The PS/2 interface itself supports NKRO, so if you had a fancy keyboard it would just work. But with USB we emulate NKRO by making a microcontroller in the keyboard fake a USB hub with like 10 keyboards plugged into it.