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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 2000 00:35:07 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Eoin Lawless <eoin@maths.tcd.ie>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dual console with matrox g400 
Message-ID:  <200010100635.AAA23740@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:52:48 %2B0930." <20001010115248.C87663@wantadilla.lemis.com> 
References:  <20001010115248.C87663@wantadilla.lemis.com>  <200010081432.aa20470@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <39E0A436.91C3466A@softweyr.com> 

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In message <20001010115248.C87663@wantadilla.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes:
: Well, you obviously need two keyboards and two mice.  I can't think of
: a case where that would be useful, but with x2x (in the Ports
: collection) you can allow different people access to the same server.

In 1990 I shared a Solbourne workstation with a friend.  It had two
graphics/I/O boards, which ment that you could have two independent
video consoles on it at the same time.  Worked a whole lot better than
one would have expected given the relative primitive tehcnology of the
time.  Glad to see that PCs are catching up :-)

Wanrer


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