Re: [Trion-kernel-dev] More resources

[Stephen M. W. <ste...@br...>]

On 26/11/05 09:52, Manuel Hohmann wrote:
>
> But what would this be good for? One user probably can't use two keyboards
> at once. But if there are several users, they can work simultaneously
> (provided there is enough space on the screen or maybe two screens). Of
> course this idea of a multi-user system is not new but already used by Unix
> and it's clones. But as far as I know this only works via a network, with
> one server running all the software and several clients or terminals. I
> haven't heard of any OS supporting several users physically on the same pc.

You can already do this with the X Window system.  And you certainly don't 
need a network to support multiple users.  I could hook up multiple keyboards 
and monitors to a single Linux CPU running the X Window server and have each 
keyboard control a window on each monitor with the desktop spread across all 
of them.  The mouse is a different resource:  it will really only work one to 
a desktop, but you could have one desktop per monitor, too.

Why would you want to do this?

(1) pair programming
(2) the big screen at mars mission control
(3) because you can (impress your friends -- chicks dig guys with big
    desktops)

Whether you want this embedded in the kernel is a different matter.

-- 
Stephen M. Webb
ste...@br...