22 Nov
2007
22 Nov
'07
11:51 p.m.
Mmm, true.
But then, many - probably most - keyboards don't send
letters at all; they send scancodes of some sort.
I would dispote the
'most' Does it actually matter for the purposes of this
discussion what the
actual communcation is between a VT100 and its keyboard?
Depends on exactly what you mean when you talk about a keyboard sending
something.
A VT100 has a relatively well-defined and narrow channel between the
keybaord and the rest of the terminal; it also has a well-defined
physical boundary between the keyboard and the rest of it - unlike,
say, a mechanical typewriter.
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