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In article <17@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Dave
Sill) writes:
>                               I don't see how you can run a mouse
>over a PC keyboard connection and have it work like one of the common
>PC mice such as Microsoft or Logitech.  Am I missing something?

Actually, Logitech used to sell one.  It requires modifying the
keyboard driver.  (I think you realized this later.)

[about the ADB]

>Do we agree that that's a quality-of-implementation issue and not a
>flaw in the concept?

Yes, though "implementation" may include the spec itself (i.e. it may
well be specified in such a way as to make the fuse-blowing problem
unfixable--I'd have to check). 

...

Me, I'd love to see an I/O interface spec.  Something along the lines
of Ethernet + TCP-IP + X11 (since we seem to agree that it won't
happen anytime soon).  Ethernet bandwidth (or the equivalent in
wireless IR link) would make it bidirectional, which is important for
things like position-of-head-sensing stereo-view helmets (which I
want).  You need to be able to send high-quality audio both ways, too.

Hey, maybe we should just say "That's the new standard" and stand
back :-).  At least one company (Agilis?) has announced a laptop
workstation with the pieces tied together with Ethernet, so it's not
impossibly farfetched.  And X has always seemed like the right way to
talk to a display controller...

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