On Fri, 14 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:

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> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:47:43AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
>
>> yes, everything has USB ports, so they could use USB keyboards, but it's
>> actually pretty common to still use PS/2 keyboards (and while the systems
>> all support USB, it's not uncommon to have KVM systems, including pretty
>> expensive 'enterprise' KVM systems that still require PS/2 keyboards be
>> used to plug into the KVM, so those are the keyboards that are in the
>> datacenter that someone will grab to plug into a problem machine)
>
> The server hardware I've looked at will all declare the ports regardless
> of whether or not there's something plugged in.

remember that many people use systems in datacenters that are not 'server 
hardware'.

when a desktop PC can have 4-6 cores with 8G+ of ram and a couple TB of 
storage, a lot of people will end up using those systems for production.

As they grow into bigger companies they will shift to 'server class' 
hardware, but startups tend to use whatever they can scrounge (or buy 
_really_ cheap)

David Lang
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