Re: uniform input device packets?
A. Wik (aw@mail1.bet1.puv.fi)
Sat, 27 Jun 1998 13:48:35 +0000
Allanah Myles wrote:
> On 1998.06.26, Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu> wrote:
> > > You currently can't attach 9 mice to a standard PC, so what's the
> > > problem?
> >
> > I certainly can put a multiport serial card (or more than one) in
> > my machine and hang mice off all the ports.
>
> OK, you certainly *can* find *some* way of doing this, but what's
> the practical implications? When would you ever *want* to do
> something like this?
>
> When would you *want* to have more than 8 devices of any specific
> *type* to a machine?
When you want/need more than 8 dial-in lines... I've seen a PC
with 10 modems and even that wasn't always enough.
("Settlers II" lets you use 2 mice, but that's a DOS game)
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