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FourHead: One PC, Four Users
LoganGD writes "A reseach group from UFPR university in Brazil, C3SL has managed to make one Linux box run four terminals at the same time. That means four mice, keyboards, displays and users with just one CPU. The way they managed to do that can be found at the FourHead project webpage. The fact that one computer science laboratory can suport up to 60 users whit only 15 PCs is really attractive for low-resource groups and countries."
I would be interested to see how they handle it!
Since they are in Brazil, the easiest way would be to move to a colder country.
Hi there,
1975 called. They want their computer headlines back.
Best regards,
Chairboy
Initially it is necessary to catch the code source of kernel 2.4.25. Makes it sound like an adventure.
-- The morphemes of your disquisition are ascertainable, but they have eschewed an ambit of transpicuous exposition.
Heh, there was once a time where I had three mice (only 1 cursor though) - I had a normal PS2 mouse plugged in, an old COM port (I think.. never been too sure what port it was) mouse and a wireless USB mouse all plugged in at the same time, and they could all control the cursor.
Hehe, it was good for playing tricks on my parents when they were sitting at the desk with the PS2 mouse and I'm sitting a few feet behind them with the handy wireless USB mouse.
*evillaugh*
Man, this is old news. We did this few years ago with five or more people on one machine. All we needed was a really small computer class, some free chairs, one PC, one keyboard, one mouse and one display.
Fastest (or strongest) got the best seats and the one with specs got the keyboard.
Talking about multi-tasking...
So I guess four heads are better than one eh?
(ba-dum-ching!)
(ducks impending flame doom)
it doesn't involve a mainframe?
clearly you need 4 reset buttons as well in that case.
Indeed, you're right, UNIX mainframes were before my time. My first computer was a pizzabox LC from Apple - and I've never touched a terminal (except perhaps at the library). But I still hold to my position - as the world becomes more networked (and this mesh becomes easier to manage), it will only make sense to reduce the amount of duplicate hardware in our setups. From a resource pespective, it makes a lot more sense to have a bunch of users share on piece of hardware and software than spread it out across a network. I guess what it then comes down to is convincing people of the benefit - like carpooling, some people will keep buying their Dell SUVs no matter the price of gas. This "news" about this being ported to linux is indeed news, because it signals the move from mainframe to mainstream.
four users, one pc? :|
:D
in my room it's 4 pcs, one user
i'm lucky i guess. IM A FAT PIGGLY WIGGLY NORTH AMERICAN!
*SQUEEELSSS!*
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They'd handle it with water cooling.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
well im running a 1000 megasquirtle doobydoo with a megakilo double widget interface and a pseudo-terrafilter. its got 2 million hexafurtles with a 10 kiloplex wobblywoo and a rechargable virtual combo-backplate monitor. i also fitted an optical finglyfangle with predictive threshold monitoring. its also got a touch sensitive keyboard and a temperature sensitive thermometer.
Built it my self.
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Can you literally run something on a shoe-string budget? What, exactly, can you get in exchange for a shoestring? Or did you mean a budget literally equal to the value of a shoestring?
Drives me nuts every time someone says 'literally' to modify a phrase that it is literally impossible to construe in any way but figuratively.
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