From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 9 23:45:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD0B37B502 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 23:45:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e9A6jRp89225; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:15:27 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:15:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Warner Losh Cc: Wes Peters , Eoin Lawless , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual console with matrox g400 Message-ID: <20001010161527.D87663@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200010100635.AAA23740@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:35:07AM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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