[OT] USB KVM switches

[Eric Smith]

Sellam wrote:
> Ok, so what I don't understand is how USB became a successful and
> widespread standard if it's such a pile of shit.  You and Tony,
> accomplished hardware designers both, think it's crap.  It's great that
> it's a documented standard, but if the technology just sucks then why
> didn't anyone call it out before it became an industry mainstay?

Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those
others that have been tried.
          -- Winston Churchill

I'm not trying to start the political flame war again.  I just mean
that by analogy to Churchill's statement, USB is the worst keyboard
interface except for all the others.

USB is better than PS/2 and ADB in nearly every measure other than
complexity.  I think it must have started as a reasonable design,
and just succumbed to kitchen sink syndrome.

Eric