![]() “Why is he doing a review of a PC keyboard?” you ask. One thing you should keep in mind is that the Avant Prime and Stellar are PC keyboards that use a PS/2 connection. The Avant Stellar costs US$189 and the Avant Prime is US$149. The Avant Prime doesn’t sport the extra function keys on the left.) (The Avant Stellar sports an extra 12 function keys on the left side of the keyboard in addition to the ones you’ll normally find at the top on any keyboard. I’m always on the lookout for good quality keyboards, so I looked into the Avant Prime and ordered one. Today, instead of being called the Northgate OmniKey Ultra and Ultra-T, these keyboards are known as the Avant Prime and Avant Stellar. (Creative Vision Technologies, Inc.) picked up where Northgate left off. Not long after that, a company known as CVT Inc. ![]() Sadly, one day in the late 90s, Northgate went out of business. Northgate continued putting out this awesome keyboard for years, long after they got out of the business of making computers. They had the same stellar reputation as IBM Model M keyboards. While their reputation for PCs was average, one thing they made stood out as a legend in the computer industry: the Northgate OmniKey line of keyboards. The Legendary Northgate OmniKeyīack in the 80s, a company called Northgate made PCs (like many other clone companies). You can type on a keyboard like this all day, and you’ll spend more time getting things done while spending less time wondering whether or not you hit the right key on the “mushmelon” keyboards of today. These keyboards are a joy to type on despite the noise they produce. In the Keyboard Roundup, I’ve already looked at the Apple Extended and Extended II keyboards in detail because of the wonderful tactile feel they have due to the Alps mechanical key switches. Having a good quality keyboard should be no exception. Part of the whole Mac experience and a strong reason for being a Mac user is productivity and efficiency. Wouldn’t you want to have a good quality keyboard you could be more productive and efficient with? Think of how much time you spend at the keyboard. Think of how many emails and how many messages you send and receive every day. There’s something to be said in having a good quality mouse, but the keyboard is still the input device of choice. One part of computers that is especially important is the keyboard. Computers and their parts from the 70s, 80s, and even into the 90s could easily last 7-10 years, and many would go on to reach 15-20 years of life. Many PC companies also understood this – at least from a hardware standpoint. I call it being good, old fashioned, and built to last.Īpple was a company that knew what good quality was on the hardware front as well as on the software front. Learn more about AMD CDX within AMD CDX Bus Landing For Linux 6.4 To Interface Between APUs & FPGAs.There was a time when every part of a computer was manufactured to the highest possible quality standard. ![]() With the char pull request there are various driver updates and also the introduction of the AMD CDX subsystem. Thanks to clearing out the old PCMCIA char code, the char/misc pull request for the Linux 6.4 merge window about breaks even at 11,014 insertions and 10982 deletions. Separately via the USB subsystem is also removing PCMCIA/CardBus to USB drivers.Įxpect more PCMCIA code to be removing over coming kernel cycles for drivers deemed broken or without any users remaining. The Omnikey Cardman 4000 driver, Omnikey Cardman 4040 driver, SCR24X Chip Card Interface driver, and SyncLink PC Card support are the drivers affected by this initial char removal in Linux 6.4. ![]() Greg Kroah-Hartman nominated the char PCMCIA drivers for removal as they are "buggy and receive only minimal care" along with the fact that other kernel developers are also in favor of removing most of the PCMCIA drivers completely. Meanwhile this pull introduced the new AMD CDX subsystem. Linus Torvalds pulled in the char/misc changes this week for Linux 6.4 and indeed those drivers are now removed. As part of that process to begin dropping old PCMCIA/CardBus driver code from the kernel, all of the PCMCIA "char" drivers were on the chopping block. As noted back in March, the plan with Linux 6.4 is to start removing old, unused and unmaintained PCMCIA drivers.
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