Re: Draining the Swamp: A Technical User's Experience

[linas linas org (Linas Vepstas)]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:29:22PM -0700, Jim Gettys was heard to remark:
> > ServerLayout - easily defaulted to 1 mouse, 1 keyboard, 1 screen
> 
> Yup.  But multiple mice, keyboards and screens should "do the right
> thing too, IMHO.  Certainly on Digital UNIX, if you plugged in another
> screen, it "just worked" out of the box.  I see no reason to settle
> for less (we never dealt with multiple keyboards and mice, since they
> more or less never happened in those days).

Actually, it happened more in those days than these days.   In those
days, a unix workstation cost $20K and the salesmen always figured
if they could attach 2 or 3 mice, 2 or 3 keyboards, 2 or 3 monitors,
(w/ 50 foot cables) then the cost per user would be $20K / (2 or 3).
Now that unix pc's are cheap, this issue doesn't come up.

--linas


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