From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 02:59:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA16362 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 02:59:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA16354; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 02:59:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id JAA11764; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:03:13 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199810220803.JAA11764@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD To: nick.hibma@jrc.it Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:03:13 +0100 (MET) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Nick Hibma" at Oct 22, 98 11:34:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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... being in italy i can speak about that.. cameras and scanners are more and more available in stores on USB nowadays (actually it is becoming difficult to find non-USB scanners and especially cameras in some places). I haven't seen many keyboards/mice on USB though. Speaking of USB: i have read that bus throughput with a single node is reported at about 750KB/s, whereas with multiple nodes bus throughput falls down very rapidly (because of arbitration etc ?) to 250KB or so. So i would not want a HD on it! cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message