Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?
Britton <fsblk@aurora.alaska.edu> writes:
> On 23 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote:
[snip]
> I think most X apps would run tolerably over a null modem cable. If I
> understand these gadgets right, the can operate at the speed of the serial
> port, which is about 120 kbps, I think. Even over ppp (33k modem) many
> apps function reasonably well.
OK, you're probably right. I forgot how much faster a null-modem is
than a 28.8K modem.
> > It is easy to plug in two mice, dodgy to plug in two monitors, but
> > pretty much impossible to plug in two keyboards at the moment, IMO.
>
> Good point, I hadn't even thought about it. How sad that the part with
> bandwidth 1/100Mth video is what you can't do.
Actually, I seem to remember now reading that it could be possible to
plug a PS/2 keyboard into a PS/2 mouse port and use it, with a bit of
work. This might have been in some GGI documentation.
XFree86 is very unlikely to support this usage unless the kernel does
first.
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