From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 08:56:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13999 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 08:56:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (hsv1-196.airnet.net [207.242.81.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13993 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 08:56:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA06652; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:54:05 GMT Message-ID: <362F0ECD.F14673FB@airnet.net> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:54:05 +0000 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Hibma CC: FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nick Hibma wrote: > 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) If I'm not mistaken, I believe that we have a problem with PCI bridges. I'd love to buy a machine with eight PCI slots. I'm afraid I'd overtax the processor before I have all my toys hooked up. (1 ethernet + 7 video? Whee!!!) > 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. The comparison I like to use is ftp.cdrom.com. If a PPro/200 can shovel out 435GB a day, imagine what a faster machine could do. Get crazy: Quad PII/400. That ought to handle any number of video cards. :-) My ISP likes to run the above under NT and call it a news server. 512MB of ram. Complete waste of a machine. On a sidenote, they got what they deserved when my mailbox became corrupted. They had to rename all my mail files. All 160+ of them. Worldmail under NT. At least UN*X only has one mail file. Hey, I'd like to do a double header on my machine... But I don't have USB, and I would like to see a way to feed in keyboard and mouse data. Multiple keyboards and mice would definately be nifty. -- Kris Kirby UAH Mail UAH CS Home WWW ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message