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KBDBASE.SYS

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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

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.