This was a really great and well-explained article. For an article that went deep into hardware internals, it somehow made it all make perfect sense. Kudos to the writer.

It’s pretty fascinating just how “dumb” the keyboard is and how keyboard input is actually being polled. It seems like this could easily lead to missed key presses or slow response, but I don’t recall the C64 keyboard suffering from either of these things. (It’s been some years since I last used a real C64 though.)

Yet, somehow on an exponentially more powerful and capable modern computer it seems that things like instant input response and no missed key presses is somehow asking for a lot.