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- From: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: Two monitors on one NeXTstation?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.234133.1101@parsec.mixcom.com>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 23:41:33 GMT
- Article-I.D.: parsec.1992Aug30.234133.1101
- References: <16393@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
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- In article <16393@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> kerchen@fuji.cs.ucdavis.edu (pall kerchen) writes:
- >Is it possible to connect two monitors to a single NeXTstation?
- >That is, I'd like to be able to connect another megapixel display,
- >keyboard & mouse to my NeXTstation, thereby allowing two different
- >users to run NeXTstep at the same time on the same machine. I seem
- >to recall reading something in the docs about such a feature but now
- >I can't seem to find it. If this capability is not currently
- >available, does anyone know if it ever will be? [Given NeXT's
- >philosophy of "one machine per user", I'm not
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- As far as I can recall you cannot do this. What you are able to
- do is hook up another "terminal" type thing to the serial port.
- Then you could have someone else work at the same time. Caveat
- emptor: that will be an ascii terminal much in the spirit of
- the console. (Hey, Emacs ain't that bad!)
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- Manuel Alberto Ricart
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