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[–] Mountainaire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ohhhhhhh.

Huh.

Also, wasn't it even once stylized like "PS/2," come to think of it? I did very vaguely remember learning about interrupts (as nouns, lol), but this makes it far clearer, thanks!

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

Yup, it was fully known as IBM PS/2, for "Personal System 2". IBM wasn't happy about how the original PC system got cloned to hell and back, so they designed a more proprietary and patentable system. Suffice to say it was a massive failure, what with it being incompatible with basically all of third party hardware. But the keyboard and mouse ports were widely regarded as a good idea! (and probably not as patentable)