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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: Two headed cube?
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Date: 13 Nov 90 15:05:47 GMT
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In article <1990Nov7.135636.27424@sctc.com>, herndon@sctc.com (William R. Herndon) writes:
|> 
|>     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
|>   
|>     Does such a board exist?  Will NeXTStep 2.0 handle two displays?  Is
|>     there any way I can do this?

What you want is technically possible but should not be done. Although NeXTStep
2.0 supports two displays, the monochrome Megapixel display draws its current 
from the cube. Thus two of these displays need too much power from the 
internal power supply of the cube. What you therefore would also need is a
external power supply for the second display or a monochrome Megapixel 
display that is developed for this purpose.

-- Ronald
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