Re: uniform input device packets?
Adam Sulmicki (adam@cfar.umd.edu)
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 14:47:21 -0400
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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