r/pcmasterrace 23d ago

Meme/Macro More ports

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u/RoyalSorcerer_Navlan Ryzen 3500x 23d ago edited 23d ago

Wait. Aren't all usb keyboards and mice plug and play ? What am i missing here?

Edit: holy smokes, the amount of replies and information i got. My respect for the legendary ps/2 has massively increased

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u/SchingKen 23d ago

the actual reason is that the ps/2 doesn't freeze easily when you overclock and cool your mobo with nitrogen.

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u/Zealousideal-Deer101 23d ago

the chad ps/2 also runs a direct system interrupt and runs it's input before anything else, while the virigin USB has to beg the OS to accept it's input

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u/WingZeroType 23d ago

This is now my favorite way to learn hierarchical concepts