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From: metahawk@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Wayne G Rigby)
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 9 Jun 91 08:01:16 GMT
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In article <50206@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>
>If I upgrade my machine (SE/30) with color, I simply add a card and the monitor
>and I can define either monitor as a window on the virtual display in any
>way I'd like (side by side, diagonally, one on top of the other.)  With a 
>Mac II, I could add 6 2 page 24 bit displays (why, I don't know.)  You'd have
>windows onto a pretty large display space, and your operations move smoothly
>from monitor to monitor.  Virtually all Mac programs will work with this 
>resource in that way.

Yes, why, I wouldn't know either.  The displays would crawl.  Since only one
graphics coprocessor could be active, the six displays would just bog the
system down horrendously (at least in 24 bit and 8 bit modes).  Perhaps in
1, 2 and maybe 4 bit modes you'd get acceptable speed out of them, though. 

                                   Wayne Rigby
                                   Computer and Systems Engineer (in training)
                                   Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
                                   metahawk@rpi.edu