From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 28 13:40:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22370 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:40:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from silver.gn.iaf.nl (silver.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22350 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:40:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by silver.gn.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA15683; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:39:41 +0100 Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA03524 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:11:03 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id VAA02297; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:39:26 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199810282039.VAA02297@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: from Curt Sampson at "Oct 28, 98 10:17:24 am" To: cjs@portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:39:26 +0100 (CET) Cc: kris@airnet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Curt Sampson wrote... > On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Kris Kirby wrote: > > > Let's not forget the physical limitations of the host machine. I'm pretty sure > > that you'd want to use PCI video cards, and how many PCI slots do you have? > > On a DEC Alpha 8400? Maybe a couple of hundred. Why? :-) If I remember correctly the 8400 can have 144 slots max. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message