On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 03:03:35PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > Didier Kryn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I guess this is exactly what "multi-seat" means: severall keyboards and > > severall grapical cards connected to the same host. It certainly does not > > include serial terminals. Serial terminal fall in the category > > "multi-user", like ssh connections, not "multi-seat". > > > I disagree there. In the context of "graphical consoles" being > discussed I see where you are coming from, but serial terminals are > just a sub class of multi-seat - while the "multiple graphics > card-keyboard-mouse" setup is another sub-set. The key difference is > that there is a long history of multi-seat via serial (and more > recently, network) terminals and (for example) the serial etc systems > inherently support multi-seat.
Indeed, this is how I first used Unix -- multiple serial-interface typewriter terminals connected to one PDP-11. Later we got a few text-only CRTs. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
