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From: wilkins%wilkins.cs.uiuc.edu@a.cs.uiuc.edu (David C. Wilkins)
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Subject: FOUR HM Consoles on 1 Sun4?
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Date: 20 Dec 88 14:49:21 GMT
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Under OS4.0, the kernel can be configured to support 3 high-resolution
monochrome console monitors, 3 keyboards boards, and 3 mice. (to see that
this is possible look at /usr/sys/sun4/conf and do a grep on dtop4).

Clearly this can be VERY advantageous; it provides a very inexpensive
alternative to buying diskless clients, and allows multiple users to run
applications such as SPE/Lisp without swapping over the net.

Has anyone tried this? Is it REALLY possible? What hardware is required to
hook up three console monitors? Thanks,

    David Wilkins,
    Dept. of Computer Science
    Univ. of Illinois

    wilkins@m.cs.uiuc.edu
    (217) 333-2822.