• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    USB is better for modern computing since it doesnt operate on an interrupt basis, like PS2, that’s the problem with PS2, USB is polling based, so it always calls, which also means it’s a lot more versatile and flexible, because you can just call and receive whatever the fuck you want from it.

    If you were to use PS2 today, you would likely see a significant performance impact.

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      2 months ago

      Apparently nobody understood in which context this was said.

      I meant a Star Wars Expanded Universe-like or solarpunk-like or some other imagined future (but with that element of utopia) world where computers are produced as widely as screwdrivers, are more modular and interoperable and competencies are also more widespread, and where computing is radically simpler due to these two requirements. Because you can’t have TSMC fabs everywhere.

      USB is by far too complex a protocol for this when you don’t necessarily need it.

      Also many motherboards still have PS/2 , no significant performance impacts, you might have mixed something up. Anyway, from a computer mouse you don’t need much.