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- From: howard@titania.ultra.com (Howard Simonson)
- Subject: Re: multiple monitors?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.045912.13219@ultra.com>
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- Organization: Ultra Network Technologies, Inc.
- References: <189@posix.COM>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 04:59:12 GMT
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- In article <189@posix.COM>, hlj@posix.COM (Hal Jespersen) writes:
- |> My old Supermac 19" is starting to fail [with age, I suppose] so that
- |> scan lines in the top 1 cm are widely spaced and the menu bar is now
- |> unreadable. I imagine this is a relatively easy adjustment. While
- |> I get up my ambition to find a repair shop, I was wondering:
- |>
- |> How well does A/UX 3.0 work with multiple monitors? If I got a second
- |> monitor (initially a backup while the first is in the shop), could I
- |> reasonably run CommandShell in either or both?
-
- Well, at work I'm currently using a SuperMac Spectrum III and the internal
- video of the IIci with an Apple 12" Greyscale. Two heads, no problem.
- (I'm actively looking for a third :)
-
- At home, I've got a SuperMac Spectrum II with a 19" color monitor (recent
- acquisition as the grey scale started getting way to dim, and I got a
- heck of a deal on the Sony in ComputerWare's parking lot :), coupled
- with a RasterOps 364 board driving an Apple 13" color monitor. Way back
- when, A/UX 2.0 had some trouble supporting the RasterOps (actually, I
- believe it was a RasterOps problem, fixed via new ROMs), but A/UX 3.0
- has had no problems with the two heads, other than the fact that the live
- video aspects of the 364 board are rendered useless under A/UX without a
- driver to "make it work" (again, a RasterOps problem, I would say).
-
- I believe I have found a bug or two with the handling of two different
- bit depths under A/UX 3.0 (8 & 24 at home), but nothing really major.
-
- |> Assuming the previous answers are affirmative, are there any known
- |> incompatible B&W big screen monitors? I have a IIx.
-
- I'm sure there are some, but I haven't run into them lately/yet so I
- can't identify any, perhaps someone else...
-
- BTW, if you'd like to buy my old grey scale and do a picture tube
- transplant from yours, I'm sure we could agree on some fair and
- equitable price for it. (Its the old 60hz type circa Spectrum Series II)
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