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Re: Dual Monitors on PC? [message #22382 is a reply to message #22377]

Fri, 10 November 2000 00:00

Harvey Rarback
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Registered: September 1998

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"Richard Younger" <younger@ll.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:3A0C35C4.4590908F@ll.mit.edu...
> "Pavel A. Romashkin" wrote:
>>
>> As far as I know, Windows 98 (maybe W 2000) is the only Windows
>> supporting dual monitors. There is no way to set this up under NT or 95.

>> David Fanning wrote:
>>>
>>> Has anyone ever seen IDL running on duel monitors
>>> on a PC? I've seen duel monitors on UNIX and I've
>>> seen it on Macs. But I've never seen it on PCs.
>>> Does anyone know if it is even possible? What
>>> graphics card?
>>
> I'm locked into NT myself, and I knew that NT doesn't support multiples,
> so I had just assumed that none of the Windows variants would have
> native support for dual monitors. But, I guess you're right that 98
> does. Go figure.
>
> I was curious so I checked the web, and MS among others has an article
> or two out on it, and you do have to tweak the settings a tad, so it
> isn't as drop-dead simple as on a Mac, but it doesn't look bad at all.
> They say they don't support all cards, so one might want to check if one
> doesn't have a common graphics card. While I was at it, I also checked
> to see if 2000 supports the same feature, and it doesn't look like it.
> For Windows, it's 98 or buy yourself a special card.
>
> Well, y'learn something new every day.

Yes, you do. Windows 2000 supports multiple monitors. I used two until
they took
the second monitor away from me :-( The setup is trivial and effectively
gives
you a bigger screen. My X server Exceed can be configured to have multiple
X
screens or treat both screens together as one big screen.

--Harvey

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		Re: Dual Monitors on PC? By: Richard Younger on Fri, 10 November 2000 00:00
		Re: Dual Monitors on PC? By: Brian Jackel on Fri, 10 November 2000 00:00
		Re: Dual Monitors on PC? By: Harvey Rarback on Fri, 10 November 2000 00:00
		Re: Dual Monitors on PC? By: Richard Younger on Fri, 10 November 2000 00:00
		Re: Dual Monitors on PC? By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Fri, 10 November 2000 00:00
		Re: Dual Monitors on PC? By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 13 November 2000 00:00
		Re: Dual Monitors on PC? By: Mark Rivers on Sat, 11 November 2000 00:00

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