KBDBASE.SYS: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:06, 17 November 2019

The keyboard base device driver (KBDBASE.SYS) is one of the two separated drivers for the keyboard physical device driver. KDBBASE.SYS is referred as the "device-independent driver" that handles the monitors, screen groups, code paging, translation and special needs processing. This device driver communicates any hardware change with the "device-dependent" driver (IBMKBD.SYS) using an IDS (inter-device-driver communication) interface.

Note: This is one of the critical drivers for the OS/2 Kernel.

Versions

Date	Version	Size	Comments
2000-04-17		16,200 bytes	Beta KBDBASE.SYS driver for C-A-D Commander 2.5.3
2007-06-15	10.70	24,989 bytes	By IBM. 101 Keyboard Device Driver-SMP

DLLs Loaded

DOSCALL1.DLL

Source Code

The source code of this file is included on the IBM Developer Connection Device Driver Kits for OS/2. It can not be open sourced, but the source code is available from IBM DDK and a free/paid binaries can be released.

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-This is the keyboard base device driver for OS/2 and eComStation.
+The keyboard base device driver (KBDBASE.SYS) is one of the two separated drivers for the keyboard physical device driver. KDBBASE.SYS is referred as the "device-independent driver" that handles the monitors, screen groups, code paging, translation and special needs processing.  This device driver communicates any hardware change with the "device-dependent" driver ([[IBMKBD.SYS]]) using an IDS (inter-device-driver communication) interface.
-KBDBASE.SYS is one of the two separated driver for the keyboard physical device driver. KDBBASE.SYS is referred as the "device-independent driver" that handles the monitors, screen groups, code paging, translation and special needs processing.  This device driver communicas any hardware change with the "device-dependet" driver ([[IBMKBD.SYS]]) using an IDS (inter-device-driver communication) interface.
 ;Note: This is one of the critical drivers for the [[OS/2 Kernel]].
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-|2000-04-17 16:12||N/A ||16,200 bytes||[http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-viewer.php?dir=/pub/os2/dev/drivers&file=cadcmdr_kbdbase.zip Beta KBDBASE.SYS] driver for C-A-D Commander 2.5.3
+|2000-04-17|| ||16,200 bytes||[http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-viewer.php?dir=/pub/os2/dev/drivers&file=cadcmdr_kbdbase.zip Beta KBDBASE.SYS] driver for C-A-D Commander 2.5.3
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-|2007-06-15 14:26||10.70||24,989 bytes||By IBM. 101 Keyboard Device Driver-SMP
+|2007-06-15||10.70||24,989 bytes||By IBM. 101 Keyboard Device Driver-SMP
 |}
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 The source code of this file is included on the [[IBM Developer Connection Device Driver Kits for OS/2]]. It can not be open sourced, but the source code is available from IBM DDK and a free/paid binaries can be released.
-[[Category:Drivers]]
+[[Category:Character Device Drivers]]