On Tuesday, 10 October 2000 at 0:35:07 -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greg Lehey writes:
>> Well, you obviously need two keyboards and two mice. I can't think of
>> a case where that would be useful, but with x2x (in the Ports
>> collection) you can allow different people access to the same server.
>
> In 1990 I shared a Solbourne workstation with a friend. It had two
> graphics/I/O boards, which ment that you could have two independent
> video consoles on it at the same time. Worked a whole lot better than
> one would have expected given the relative primitive tehcnology of the
> time. Glad to see that PCs are catching up :-)
I had a PC with two graphics cards long before that. It was
relatively common to have a machine with both CGA and MDA, and there
were some debuggers which would handle both (debug a full-screen
application with the debug output on the other monitor).
Greg
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