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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Hercules shrugged
Keywords: VGA
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.214355.10339@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 1 Nov 90 21:43:55 GMT
References: <15827@netcom.UUCP> <1990Oct30.193858.25746@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <1990Oct30.193858.25746@nntp-server.caltech.edu> gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu) writes:
>i have a hercules mono card+$50 amber monitor, which i really like.
>i am thinking of getting a cheep ega card so i can play games.
>would i still be about to use the mono card+monitor if i put in
>a ega card? i want games to run on the ega card, everything else
>on the mono.

Yes, the PC architecture allows two monitors, one monochrome, the other color.

You can even have a VGA or SVGA system AND a mono system ate the same time.
This setup is required for debugging windows applications. You can use the
"mode" command to shift focus between the two monitors while in dos. There
are programs (like DoubleDos) that can even multitask (sort of) with I/O for
one process going to one monitor and the I/O for the other process going to
the other monitor.

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