Re: uniform input device packets?

Allanah Myles (dossy@panoptic.com)
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:07:01 -0400

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?

When would you *want* to have more than 8 devices of any specific
*type* to a machine?

-Dossy

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