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From: chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.arch
Subject: Re: How to make 2 workstations behave as 1??
Keywords: X color monochrome 2
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Date: 17 Mar 89 14:12:37 GMT
References: <27426@apple.Apple.COM>
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In article <27426@apple.Apple.COM> jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway) writes:
>I would ideally like to have both a color and monochrome tube on my
>workstation (color is essential (not to mention fun) for some applications but,
>due to its slight fuzzyness I prefer mono for just text work).  The latest
>crop of wonderfully fast workstations however are all built on SBC technology
>and hence seem to have only one graphics subsystem (unless you get a much
>more expensive server model with a bus which I would like to avoid).  What
>to do?  Well how about having 2 workstations, one color, one mono, and have
>them behave as if they were a single unit?  How would this work?

     Why not just buy a machine which allows multiple heads?  You can buy a
Sun-3/60 with both the resident mono frame buffer and add a color frame
buffer, both on the motherboard, and plug in two monitors.  There is a
program called "switcher" which lets you switch between the two, and a
program called "adjacent_screens" which lets you switch just by sliding the
mouse off one edge of a head and on to the next.

Chuck Musciano
Advanced Technology Department
Harris Corporation
(407) 727-6131
ARPA: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com