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The inability to simply connect one computer to another has always bothered me. Apparently there's a mode in USB 4 which will allow this.
by ThrowawayTestr 3y ago
The inability to simply connect one computer to another has always bothered me. Apparently there's a mode in USB 4 which will allow this.
- rusk 3y agoRS232 null modem ftw!
- dekhn 3y agoAt some point in college (in the mid 90s) I had a Linux box and a Sun box (pre-solaris) and had them connected up using X11 over SLIP over RS232 with a null modem and gender changer. The sun workstation could be completely controlled through RS232- you could reset the machine, do stuff to the boot system, etc. IIRC the max baud I could use was 19200, or maybe 38400.
- rusk 3y ago> The sun workstation could be completely controlled through RS232 As a terminal right? the native function for RS232 was dumb terminals, and at some point that got abstracted a few thousand times to what we consider to be common terminals. You were running a proper paleo setup!
- ssl-3 3y agoThere was a time when FireWire did that kind of thing -- not specifically with remote displays, but providing a high-bandwidth (for the time) wired network link between two PCs. At home, in the Ye Olde 10/100 Ethernet days, sometimes I plugged my laptop into my desktop with 400Mbps FireWire to transfer big files. No special cable required; any dumb FireWire cable with the right connectors on each end ("big" for the desktop, "little" for that particular laptop) worked just fine between any two FireWire devices.
- LoganDark 3y agoYou talking about Target Display Mode? Or did that never support FireWire?
- ssl-3 3y agoI think Display Target Mode only worked with Thunderbolt, which was different. I just used Firewire (er... maybe IEEE-1394, since it was in PC space) as a temporary and fast network connection for running (eg) IP stuff and file transfers with SMB, but it could have been used permanently. At the time, plugging a Firewire cable in betwixt two Windows machines generated this network automatically, with RFC 3330 addresses for each end. It just worked; each machine could be addressed by name nearly instantly after connection, and whatever file shares they had available could then be accessed with the same mechanisms that would be used on the normal Ethernet LAN. I never did anything particularly complex with it.
- zokier 3y agoThat's how it works with USB too these days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39003469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39003469
- mixmastamyk 3y agoI just did this but had to buy a special tb4 cable. Just worked, though I had to look up the IP addresses.
- RockRobotRock 3y agoLinus showed off a really impressive tech demo which accomplishes that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqCwLjhb4YY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqCwLjhb4YY I would link another source if I can, but there's almost nothing I could find about Thunderbolt Share.
- RunSet 3y agoEthernet has provided it all along. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable
- bmicraft 3y agoYeah but then you're limited to Ethernet speeds, which (if even present on a modern laptop) is often 1/20th the speed of its fastest USB port. I just want to image the SSD without disassembling the laptop, damnit
- ThrowawayTestr 3y agoSure, but then you have to set ip addresses and network shares, it's a pain.