Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:33:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it> To: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> Cc: FreeBSD hackers mailing list <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.981022112915.17573H-100000@elect8> In-Reply-To: <362EAA40.B215D4A9@airnet.net>
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> 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? You are either part of the core team and on the cautious side of things or otherwise on the wrong list... :-) To counter your remark: Let's not forget about the possiblities that might emerge from this. x servers with lots of PCI slots, exactly for this purpose x graphics cards with multiple connectors for monitors on the back (they exist, I believe, otherwise it won't take long, now windows has multi head support) And yes it will be slow. But having an extra place to work at for only ECU 499.99 including monitor is something one or the other might go for. See VAX VMS in the old days. That worked, on a CPU the 'size' of a 486. Nick. P.S.: This is talking features, not base requirement. The base requirement is to be able to feed the USB keyboard input into the normal keyboard. You're right from that perspective. -- building: 27A address: STA-ISIS, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy tel.: +39 332 78 9549 fax.: +39 332 78 9185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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