Nicolas Mailhot (Nicolas.Mailhot(a)laPoste.net) 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