Nicolas Mailhot (Nicolas.Mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > One interesting part about this discussion is the statement someone made > > that in a few years we will all have usb keyboards and mouses, this has > > been said a few years ago too, but currently all standard systems are > > still shipped with ps2 keyb and mouse afaik. > > ps/2 assumptions are hardcoded in an awful lot of dos/bios utilities. > full USB input is an hard sell (I should know, I have had one for more > than a year and it's not always been an easy ride). And wireless > keyboards removed a lot of the arguments against PS/2. > > OTOH USB connectors are actually superior to PS/2 ones (as rack builders > are slowly discovering) and it'll take only a few first-tier systems to > force people to fix their hardware. Once it's done, PS/2 keyboards will > go the way of the PS/2 mouse quickly. Who even thinks about buying a > PS/2 mouse nowadays ? Moreover, the !PC world certainly has moved away from PS2 mice and keyboards by default - PPC, ia64, and even some AMD64 boxes are all USB-only. Bill
