Re: uniform input device packets?

Allanah Myles (dossy@panoptic.com)
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 01:21:38 -0400


On 1998.06.24, Pavel Machek <pavel@elf.ucw.cz> wrote:
> Hmm, I do not like this one. What is wrong with attaching 9 mice to my
> PC?

You currently can't attach 9 mice to a standard PC, so what's the
problem? At least my proposed methodology would *possibly* support
8. With USB, 9 mice on your USB might be *possible*, but highly
unlikely.

> Also, you limited number of device types to 4. Currently, we have
> keyboards, mice, joysticks, lightpens, tablets. That's 5.

I limited the number of device types to 2^5, or 32. Where are you
pulling the number *4* from?

I can't think of more than about 8-9 type of devices that we'd
want to support, but at least with room for up to 32 device-types,
I think that's plenty.

-Dossy

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