Re: Dual display on Blade 2000

From: Lawrence Statton N1GAK/XE2 (lawrence_at_hummer.not-here.net)
Date: 08/30/05 

Date: 29 Aug 2005 19:48:55 -0700

dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) writes:
> In article <IM0GG9.J21@cjsa.com>, Jeffery Small <jeff@cjsa.com> wrote:
> >dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) writes:
> >I remember back with SunOS you could reconfigure the
> >kernel to support up to three different mice/keyboards.
>
> Interesting. Was there an sBus card to give one or two extra
> keyboard/mouse connectors? Or was this back in the VME days?
>

On sun4d machines, each system board has a zs. Anyone want an SS1000
w/ three system boards and a mountain of memory and full of SM61s?
Come-and-get-it.

Could you have more than one BIO card in a VME Solbourne? I seem to
remember that as an option - although that would be with the Solbourne
keyboard which appeared all the world like a type-4 keyboard but was
definitely not. One combination would blow the keyboard fuse, and
another would eventually let the smoke out of a chip.

I have one veeeeeeeeeeeeeeery hazy memory of a sun4-class machine that
could have more than one keyboard/mouse. Maybe am I just thinking of
the multiple ZS serial ports on the Sun 4/330.

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