Re: OT:hardware question

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Author: Don Calfa
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: OT:hardware question
Bryce C wrote:

>LOL, true, mostly. There was a linux version, I remember reading in an
>issue of a linux magazine, but it wasn't very good then, and such a
>product isn't worth it anymore.
>Maybe PLUG can help you find something better if you tell us what you're
>looking for. Were you looking for this just because you wanted 2 people
>on the same computer at the very same time, it'd be easier and more
>linux-compatible to do a 1 client LTSP setup.
>
>On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 09:43, Don Calfa wrote:
>
>
>>Charlie Bullen wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hello, I remember seeing a card that can be installed in a computer
>>>that allows for 2 or more monitors, mice and keyboards to be connected
>>>to aPC, so that multiple users can work on it simultaneously. Any
>>>ideas who makes such a device. It is not a KVM switch and not a
>>>terminal server.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Charlie
>>>---------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>That was a device for Windows 95, popular in the latter half of the last
>>decade of the last century.
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>>
>>

The problem with LTSP is that you generally still require a CPU. This
device was for 1 cpu, 2 monitors, 2 KBD, and 2 mice targeted at the
single computer family. However, I'm sure that there are some cases
from that era collecting dust that could be used for this project.

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