From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 02:46:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA15376 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 02:46:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA15369; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 02:46:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA23234; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:46:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199810220946.LAA23234@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: from Nick Hibma at "Oct 22, 98 11:35:05 am" To: nick.hibma@jrc.it Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:46:11 +0200 (CEST) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message