Two people using two keyboards and mice on same computer?

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hkhawk

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Hey, my friend just built a new computer with a quad core CPU and three 24" screens. He generally uses all three screens for his work but he was wondering if there was a way to let another person use the same computer at the same time? You know, plug in another mouse and keyboard and swing around one of the monitors so two people can work simultaneously on the same computer. One person gets one monitor, a mouse, and a keyboard and the other will use the other two monitors and another mouse and keyboard. Because he has a quad core processor and frequently runs many programs at the same time I don't see why this should be so hard as the computer is more than able to run many tasks simultaneously. Is there any way to do this?
 
Not recently. Jetway used to have a feature to do this (TwinView, MagicTwin, something like that), but it required two OS licenses and was very short-lived.

Edit:
Check out DualOsX, and pray that they finish DualVista soon. :)
 
By the way, are there any other options. My friend would be happy to pay for an existing program that will let him do this right now.
 
You can check out a software called BeTwin. I don't know much about it but it sounds like it'll do what you're looking for.
 
There is hardware designed to accomplish this(networked computer terminals and such). If you are sitting right there you don't really need to hardware do you?

Which leads me to believe there should be software to do this.
 
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