Re: uniform input device packets?
Scott Lampert (fortunato@altair.heavymetal.org)
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 15:07:24 -0400
> Hm, the Mac's ADB upper-limit is 15 devices, isn't it?
>
> Either way - how many users do *you* know of who have 14 mice strung
> out on their ADB chain? This get-up would also require a special
> ADB-port splitter...
>
> I think the distinction I was trying to make was not "what the
> hardware might tolerate" but "what a user would ever need to
> do."
>
IMHO, any assumptions made based on "what a user would ever need to do"
is a dangerous one. As has been cited often enough, the 640K limitation in DOS
was result of this sort of assumption. What user would ever need more ram
than that? And all the Y2K nonsense could be attributed to the same sort of
reasoning.
-Scott
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