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From: ergo@netcom.COM (Isaac Rabinovitch)
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Subject: Re: Need A Windows 3.0 Monitor > 21" And > 1280 x 1024 Resolution
Message-ID: <1991May9.014210.22904@netcom.COM>
Date: 9 May 91 01:42:10 GMT
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In <1991May4.132027.11659@cbnews.cb.att.com> gwe@cbnews.cb.att.com (george.w.erhart) writes:

>In article <41952@cup.portal.com> Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes) writes:
>>I have started to realize that you just can't get enough desktop, and 
>>honestly if I could buy a 30" monitor with 2048 x 1280 resolution and 
>>a *good* >Windows 3.0 driver I would get it.

>On a similar vein ... I have always been impressed by the Macs ability to 
>handle a multihead display. Is there any way to do this in a PC and have
>Windows recognize/handle both displays? From what I know about the PC hardware,
>there are some severe restrictions. BUT, if an 8514/A type display can 
>co-exist with a VGA card, why can't a Windows display driver allow both
>the VGA and the 8514/A to be used at the same time. (Assuming that you had
>two monitors.)

I believe you need a special video card.  I've heard of a company
(forget the name, sorry) which is selling a video card that can drive
up to *9* monitors at once -- and it comes with a Windows driver that
lets you use all 9 as a single "desktop".  Needless to say, it costs.
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