Re: Multiple keyboards with only one routed to windows...

From: David J. Craig (SeniorDriversWriter_at_shogunyoshimuni.com.net)
Date: 02/01/04 

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:37:07 -0500

You said:
> I find it stupid to buy three computers for three people costing three
> times the price for one when beeing able to solve such problems with
> software.
>
They used to call this a mainframe. IBM still sells them. Microsoft's
Windows has terminal server. XP has the ability to have multiple users
logged in, but you have to do a 'fast' switch at the single
keyboard/mouse/monitor to change sessions. Unix on mini-computers and
even Intel hardware can do mini-mainframe type work. However, the
'world' or almost all of the 'world' decided several years ago that
having a computer for each user made a lot more sense. You can
disagree, but for many applications it makes more sense than having a
mainframe or mini computer.

"Volker Jung" <volker.jung.lenggries@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:e0141224.0402011141.4d4c98e2@posting.google.com...
> Hello, Mike!
>
> "The question to be asked is: why do you want to do this?"
>
> The answer is simple but complex: I donīt like Linux. I donīt like
> Windows. I donīt like that Linux-contra-Windows-debate. I appreciate
> only one solution: ONE System rebuild from scratch using completely
> different techniques to achieve its tasks.
>
> Neither Windows XXX nor Linux YYY meet that goal. I have - doing my
> daily work - to decide between them respectively to use them both.
>
> But - although beeing very deep inside the theory of OSs - I like
> Windows much more. It is better documented than Linux although sources
> are closed. I like its optics. Itīs the only near professional system
> around and the one thing that comes most closely to a standard.
>
> Of course I donīt like Microsoftīs politics. Of course I would say the
> world has a right to know Windowsī sources.
>
> But: I use it much more often than Linux. I get nearly every problem
> solved without having to join thousands of expensive courses about
> Windows-administration. Even my grandma could use it. Thereīs the
> difference. By the way: Nearly every hardware is installed within
> minutes every program within seconds - you donīt have to care about
> environment variables and other bull***. You doubleclick the file and
> itīs done.
>
> Because of this Linux is a slave for me running under Windows - not
> the other way round. Besides Windowsī speed will perhaps never be
> reached by Linux.
>
> I wish to be free to start two, three, or five Windows systems on one
> machine at the same time doing tasks that canīt be done another way
> using only one machine. Iīm not rich - a can afford only one machine
> but often have the need for more machines.
>
> I find it stupid to buy three computers for three people costing three
> times the price for one when beeing able to solve such problems with
> software.
>
> But: Not with a system grabbing all keyboards. Itīs a problem of
> Windows but it can be solved. I tried "BeTwin" which should solve that
> problem. This program was able to distinguish the several input
> devices but in itīs main goal it sucked. It crashed Windows after one
> reboot.
>
> How is it done? This is the question again.
>
> Some people outside who did the same? Could be done for programming
> two hundred shortcuts beeing accessible with one key... There are a
> few ideas where this would be helpful...
>
> Thanks for your help
> Volker Jung