> 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?
What is I was implementing a multihead solution with 15 heads in
once machine or speed, maybe on a multiplayer game? What about if each
person needs two mice for my control scheme?
> When would you *want* to have more than 8 devices of any specific
> *type* to a machine?
The point is not that I want this now, but that someone *might*
want it in the future and that it is a bad thing to build in these sorts
of arbitrary restrictions into a protocol.
Jon
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