Polling keyboard

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From: BBS Account
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 04:58

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Can anyone tell me how, in either C or assembly language (8088), I can poll
the keyboard for character input without actually waiting for input, i.e.
just check if the user has hit a key.


Thanks!

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