On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 03:03:35PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Didier Kryn <kryn@???> 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
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