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cl27111@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher  Lindsey) writes:

>gay@beaufort.sfu.ca (Ian D. Gay) writes:

>>What is the best software method of determining the keyboard type 
>>(enhanced / 84 key ... others?) on a DOS system?

> The best way to do this (in my opinion) is to stuff the keyboard
>buffer 16 times through interrupt 16, service 5.  Next, try reading in
>16 bytes of information from the keyboard buffer through interrupt 16, service
>10.  If you put in 16 asterisks, you will get 16 asterisks back if an
>enhanced keyboard is present.  Otherwise, you'll get nothing.

Thanks for the advice. Do all systems that implement service 5 also 
implement service 10? What if the user is leaning on a key while you do
this?


> You can also test the bit at 40:86, but some clones falsely set this,
>so it isn't totally accurate.

Isn't it 40:96?


>Christopher Lindsey -- Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Univ. of Illinois