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BBC bypasses Linux kernel to make streaming videos flow

itzman

Re: Smells funny

years ago I had occasion to trace a keypress from the interrupt service routine that handled it all the way through DOS 2.2

It was several thousand instructions before it appeared to the application.

Some like keyboard mapping, were valid. Others appeared utterly arbitrary and left over from legacy code.

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