Bret Busby wrote:
> With the "5 monsters", each having a separate keyboard and mouse, I wonder
> whether the "monsters" means users...
>
> UNIX, to serve up to 32 users), and that, if this is the case, the
> workstation would need to have 5 video sockets and 10 USB sockets to serve
> the keyboards and meeces ("I hate meeces to pieces" :) ), or, if the
> monitors can be served from USB sockets, 15 USB sockets.
>
> Whilst this computer that I am using, has about ten USB sockets (including
> four on the front), I expect that a similar workstation to this, would be
> required, or, a proper server, with all of the required sockets, both
> options being, I believe, quite expensive to buy new.
Video cards with 6 monitor outputs are available for reasonable
prices.
Keyboards and mice are low-speed devices, so USB hubs would be
practical.
> So, I believe that it would be less expensive, to buy five separate
> computers, probably low-end "laptop" computers, upon which Debian can be
> installed, and, install Debian on each of them.
Often, that is the case. And they can be used to run
applications on a shared server, though not all of them.
But, this is a plausibly supportable configuration, so perhaps
they have a good use case.
-dsr-
