Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] writeup

[Jim P. <ji...@ag...>]

I'm clear about consoles - each of /dev/tty[1-6] and X-Windows in my example
is a separate console, only one of which is displayed at any one time.

I'm also clear about heads in sense of a bunch of hardware all somehow in
use together, by one person.

In your CAD example, those 8 keyboard/screen combinations could in fact be 8
heads, if used independently (one person checking his mail, the next
editing, whatever).

However, for your big everyone-work-on-the-same-screen example, they count
as just one head, right, that has 8 users ?

Clear I think.

When I was thinking about one keyboard and two monitors, I was thinking of
two independent consoles being displayed on the two monitors.  If we have
hot-keys to switch the keyboard from one monitor to the other, then
effectively we have an emulation of two heads, since these two consoles are
independent.  It's like constantly plugging the keyboard into one port or
the other, or having a switch-box in the line to switch between the two
ports.

Jim

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