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From: jsw@xhead.esd.sgi.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Second Graphics Console
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.030027.27968@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 30 Jan 91 03:00:27 GMT
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> It is also likely that future hardware will someday support multiple
> consoles, ie. multiple (or at least two) graphics pipelines and
> display monitors running from the same Iris, but that is not part of
> IRIX 4.0.

  This is not true.  SGI sells a multi-headed Personal IRIS.  The
cpu and graphics boards are VME and reside in a the same chasis as
the 4D85.  You can have up to 4 Personal IRIS graphics boards in
such a system.  The support for multiple displays in IRIX 3.3 is
rather poor, only running the window system on the first screen and
specially coded GL programs on the other screens.  IRIX 4.0 should
give full support for X and GL on all screens for this machine.

	--Jeff

Jeff Weinstein - X Protocol Police
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Entry Systems Division, Window Systems
jsw@xhead.esd.sgi.com
Any opinions expressed above are mine, not sgi's.