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Re:Project Oberon by matheusmoreira on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @12:39AM (#24477927)
> then keyboard makers started to limit it to accommodate Windows

Wow, I really had no idea. That's really frustrating...

Any way to fix this? Maybe we can somehow hack the keyboards. They have an USB controller with firmware on it, right?

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Re:Project Oberon by analognoise on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:10AM (#24478069)
USB capable microcontrollers are a buck or two in unit quantity; most of them with a USB drivers fron the manufacturer have a HID device as a standard example. It's like "Hello, World!" but for USB.

Hack? Nah. Engineer? Easily.

But the other commenter who noted that it was a BIOS limitation was right - it's not a Windows thing.

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Re:Project Oberon by baybal2 on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @12:53AM (#24477993)
Have the keyboard maker order a controller chip that does HID in a way compliant to spec
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