joe@bryans.scc.com (04/25/89)
I misplaced the article concerning an IBM machine under DOS 3.3 running two monitors, but this is in regards to that one. Even though an IBM PS/2 can run with two monitors, DOS 3.3 is not multi- tasking. Basically, most CAD programs (and other advanced graphic applications) support specialized graphic boards which put out a separate video output than the normal EGA/VGA output. Meaning it can be hooked up to a graphics monitor at the same time your normal monitor is hooked up to your standard graphics card. The software that utilizes this set up is not multitasking, it merely sends all graphics output to the specialized graphics board, and all text to your EGA/VGA board. It may look as if you have two processes running, but it's just one that switches from one display to another. As far as I know, you can hook up a dumb terminal to the serial port on the Amiga and use it as a second terminal. (ie. second monitor?) Joe Kuzma joe@bryans.scc.com
dnye@bbn.com (David Nye) (04/26/89)
In article <13970@louie.udel.EDU> joe@bryans.scc.com writes: > >Even though an IBM PS/2 can run with two monitors, DOS 3.3 is not multi- >tasking. Basically, most CAD programs (and other advanced graphic >applications) support specialized graphic boards which put out a separate >video output than the normal EGA/VGA output. Meaning it can be hooked up >to a graphics monitor at the same time your normal monitor is hooked up > >Joe Kuzma >joe@bryans.scc.com While we are on this subject, ;^> I am sure some of you in netland who spend more time with the M*C than I, have seen the M*C runing two monitors. I was shown this at work. When the person moves the mouse off one window it pops up in the other window. It seems to work like one BIG monitor but in two sections. ANY way that this could be acomplished on the amiga? From what they said the M*C can have FIVE monitors going at the same time, One on each side and the one in the middle. This looks real neat for those of us with hard drives that have very cluttered screens after going down to the deepest darkest directory. Dave Nye ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = // Dave Nye -- President, Southern New Hampshire AMIGA Users Group = = // dnye@bbn.com dnye%bbn.com@relay.cs.net ...!harvard!bbn!dnye = = \\// BBN, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., My Employers computer, MY opinion.. = ===============================================================================
jonathan@jvc.UUCP (Jonathan Hue) (04/27/89)
In article <39112@bbn.COM>, dnye@bbn.com (David Nye) writes: > > I am sure some of you in netland who spend more time with the M*C than I, > have seen the M*C runing two monitors. I was shown this at work. I hate using a Mac, but one nice thing about the Mac II is the way display cards work. Every frame buffer is required to have a ROM which among other things lists the attributes of the frame buffer, like the x-y dimensions, screen depth, color map size, etc. The Mac can use any display card which meets the proper requirements, and display Macintosh windows and menus in them. There are a *lot* of different NuBus displays for the MacII from Radius, SuperMac, Truvel, and RasterOps (I last looked at this stuff about two months before the Mac II was released, so flame me via e-mail if I'm wrong) I realize that this doesn't fit in at all with the way the current Amiga computers work, but it's really nice to be able to decide what resolution and color depth you want (How deep are your pockets?). I'd kill for an Amiga with 1024x768 24-bit color + overlay. A Vista 32 board would do the trick, if only the OS knew how to use it. Oh yeah, I want 60+ Hz, non-interlaced, so don't try to sit on a pixel bus somewhere and assemble frames for me. -Jonathan JVC Labs uunet!jvc!jonathan