Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!gatech!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!declan From: declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Two headed cube? Summary: Nope... Message-ID: Date: 7 Nov 90 17:05:20 GMT References: <1990Nov7.135636.27424@sctc.com> Distribution: comp Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 29 In article <1990Nov7.135636.27424@sctc.com>, herndon@sctc.com (William R. Herndon) writes: > > I am about to take delivery of an 030 cube that I will upgrade as soon > as the money is available. I am very interested in the idea of having > a "two-headed" cube. By that I mean a cube with two monochrome Mega- > pixel displays. One of the reasons that I'm buying a used cube versus > a new NeXTStation is the expansion slots and my hope that a board is > available ( or will soon be available ) that allows a second high-res > video display to be added to the NeXT. > > Does such a board exist? Will NeXTStep 2.0 handle two displays? Is > there any way I can do this? > > Thanks in advance. Any and all help is appreciated. > NeXTstep 2.0 will handle multiple displays quite well; there's a panel in Preferences that allows you to move them around, have one on top of the other, and position your dock and loginwindow on whatever screen you like. However, there is no support for two monochrome MegaPixel displays - the power supply was designed to support only one. Perhaps a third party will come out with a nice (inexpensive) greyscale board for the NeXTcube... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Declan McCullagh / NeXT Campus Consultant \ declan@remus.rutgers.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------