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There 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
by ssl-3 3y ago
There 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