Re: uniform input device packets?

Edward S. Marshall (emarshal@logic.net)
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 02:15:53 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Allanah Myles wrote:
> 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.

Unlikely, until you use a dual Pentium II/400 with a gig of memory as a
multiuser workstation with 10-12 consoles. Forget network desktops; do it
with locally-wired input and output devices.

No, you can't easily do this yet. But limiting this in the software makes
it impossible to do without yet another round of revisions in a year or
so when people say "wouldn't it be cool if I could do this...". Remember
"640k is enough for anybody"?

I'm dropping in on this discussion late, but has anyone looked at previous
work in this area (specifically, EvStacks, an almost-complete (although
very beta) version of exactly what you're talking about)? Info on EvStacks
can be obtained at:

http://pepsi.visus.com/~jmcc/EvStack/

Plus information about the project this was designed for:

http://www.ggi-project.org/

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