Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:15:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> 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: <20001010161527.D87663@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200010100635.AAA23740@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:35:07AM -0600 References: <20001010115248.C87663@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200010081432.aa20470@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <39E0A436.91C3466A@softweyr.com> <20001010115248.C87663@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200010100635.AAA23740@harmony.village.org>
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On Tuesday, 10 October 2000 at 0:35:07 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > 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 :-) I had a PC with two graphics cards long before that. It was relatively common to have a machine with both CGA and MDA, and there were some debuggers which would handle both (debug a full-screen application with the debug output on the other monitor). Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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