Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!usc!alicudi.usc.edu!crum From: crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: NeXTdimension board - multiple heads on a cube? Message-ID: Date: 19 Sep 90 17:13:15 GMT Sender: news@usc.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of Southern California Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: alicudi.usc.edu Originator: crum@alicudi.usc.edu Important question (to me anyway): When a NeXTcube is eqipped with a NeXTdimension color board, can both the grayscale and color displays be used at the same time? If so, then does the NeXTstep window server do clipping at a low level so that one can drag windows from one display to the other? The press release says "to take advantage of NeXT's sound capabilities, NeXTdimension users need a Sound Box, a unit that integrates a speaker, a microphone, headphone jacks and RCA-style stereo output, plus keyboard and mouse interfaces." That implies that the user of the NeXTdimension color board (in a NeXTcube) uses only the color display and not the keyboard and mouse and Megapixel (grayscale) display that come with the NeXTcube. I would really like to see support for multiple displays per single user the way Macintosh systems support multiple displays. That would give NeXTstep/DPS another big technical advantage over the X Window System. (When X is used on multiple displays, e.g. on Suns, HPs and IBMs, the mouse cursor can be moved from one display to another, but windows cannot span multiple displays.) The PostScript interface should make this coordination even smoother than QuickDraw. (Can more than one NeXTdimension board be used in a NeXTcube?) Gary