Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Jun 1998 13:48:35 +0000 | From | "A. Wik" <> | Subject | Re: uniform input device packets? |
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Allanah Myles wrote: > 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?
When you want/need more than 8 dial-in lines... I've seen a PC with 10 modems and even that wasn't always enough.
("Settlers II" lets you use 2 mice, but that's a DOS game)
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