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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Subject: Re: Addressing two independent monitors from one PC
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.050755.9640@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Keywords: Dual monitors, windows
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- References: <1992Aug25.225953.21677@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 05:07:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.225953.21677@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> elemjm@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Michael Miles) writes:
- >PROBLEM TIME...
- >
- >I need to use two SVGA monitors from the same computer. The problem is
- >rather than simply displaying identical information, I want to be able to run
- >Windows 3.1 on one, and send simple patterns to the other, controlled from a
- >program running under Windows. I will be using either a standard or laptop
- >386 PC with coprocessor, 4Meg RAM.
- >
- >Question 1. Is this possible at all - even using a separate graphics card for
- > each monitor?
-
- Get a vanilla SVGA card and an ATI 8514/Ultra - the model
- _without_ built-in VGA. Dell sells 'em for $299 US.
-
- There's no command overlap. Bloody dandy.
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