> On Fri, 14 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
>> 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)
