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Re: Dual Monitors on PC? [message #22391 is a reply to message #22377]

Fri, 10 November 2000 00:00

Richard Younger
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Registered: November 2000

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"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.
> In 98, I *think* it is the same as on a Mac - plug in another PCI video
> card and go. Running out of screen, huh? I just added a second 17" to my
> Mac. Lovely.
> Cheers,
> Pavel
>
> David Fanning wrote:
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Davida

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.

Rich

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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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