Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:46:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: nick.hibma@jrc.it Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199810220946.LAA23234@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.981022113426.17573J-100000@elect8> from Nick Hibma at "Oct 22, 98 11:35:05 am"
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In reply to Nick Hibma who wrote:
> > Why on earth would one want that ?? With todays PC prices one can easily
> > afford multible machines, especially when you have to buy the monitor &
> > keyboard for each anyways.
>
> Desktop space?
Hmm, monitor and Keyboard takes up the most space, the CPU unit can be put
under the table :)
Besides, what the use of such systems, one user can easily use all the CPU
in one machine, and running multiple X's etc seems a good way to use
sufficiently of resources to make it a pain to use...
> > > P.S.: If you fancy writing a device driver for USB, we could use someone
> > > to do a mouse, keyboard, printer and HID driver.
> >
> > Given the right HW I could help out...
>
> Well, that's the problem really, given the right hardware I would do it
> myself. But try to get USB hardware in Italy...
Well, that is not a problem her in DK land, funding is :)
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
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