From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 10 0: 0:21 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 BDDF237B66C for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 00:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e9A6xpS89338; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:29:51 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:29:51 +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: <20001010162951.F87663@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20001010161527.D87663@wantadilla.lemis.com> <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> <20001010161527.D87663@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200010100651.AAA23881@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200010100651.AAA23881@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:51:50AM -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 0:51:50 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20001010161527.D87663@wantadilla.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: >> 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). > > True. But I've not seen a PC that could have multiple keyboards/mice > until USB came along. Well, I did see some kludges, but they were > fairly rare. Now, many different solutions exist that you can mix and > match... Well, multiple mice were never an issue, but the keyboard was. I had done some thinking about a serial keyboard, but mainly to get away from the stupid layouts of PC keyboards. 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