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SubjectRe: uniform input device packets?
DateFri, 26 Jun 1998 14:47:21 -0400
FromAdam Sulmicki <>
Allanah Myles writes:
->On 1998.06.26, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
->> I can plug 14 mice and a keyboard into one macintosh
->
->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."

	Well, someone said that no computer will ever 
	need more than 640kb ram [*].


		 So here situation does not have to be 
	different. After all those all devices does not 
	have to be mices. Those can be trackballs, 
	business card scanners, null-modem or whatever.

-Adam
[*] Yes, I know how said that, so you don't have to tell me :P



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