[geeks] new keyboard goodness

[nate at portents.com]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:28:43 -0400 (EDT), der Mouse
<mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG> wrote:
>>> Is Nkey rollover important though?
> 
>> Yes, very.
> 
>> I can type fast enough to outrun any keyboard without it.
> 
> ...huh?
> 
> What is rollover, then?  What I thought it was was the ability to
> correctly detect a key going up or down even with one other arbitrary
> key down (two-key rollover) or two others (three-key rollover) or etc,
> up to an arbitrary number of other keys down (N-key rollover).
> 
> Speed - of anything - is completely irrelevant to this property.
> 
> What do you understand rollover to be?

This is actually a complex topic, and I recommend you start here:

http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=NKey+Rollover+-+Overview+Testing+Methodology+and+Results

- Nate