Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jvc!jonathan
From: jonathan@jvc.UUCP (Jonathan Hue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM DOS / MULTIPLE MONITORS
Keywords: Multiple Monitors, M*C
Message-ID: <497@jvc.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 89 22:01:27 GMT
References: <13970@louie.udel.EDU> <39112@bbn.COM>
Organization: JVC Laboratory of America
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In article <39112@bbn.COM>, dnye@bbn.com (David Nye) writes:
> 
> I am sure some of you in netland who spend more time with the M*C than I,
> have seen the M*C runing two monitors.  I was shown this at work.

I hate using a Mac, but one nice thing about the Mac II is the way display
cards work.  Every frame buffer is required to have a ROM which among other
things lists the attributes of the frame buffer, like the x-y dimensions,
screen depth, color map size, etc.  The Mac can use any display card which
meets the proper requirements, and display Macintosh windows and menus in
them.  There are a *lot* of different NuBus displays for the MacII from
Radius, SuperMac, Truvel, and RasterOps (I last looked at this stuff about two
months before the Mac II was released, so flame me via e-mail if I'm wrong)

I realize that this doesn't fit in at all with the way the current Amiga
computers work, but it's really nice to be able to decide what resolution
and color depth you want (How deep are your pockets?).  I'd kill for an Amiga
with 1024x768 24-bit color + overlay.  A Vista 32 board would do the trick, if
only the OS knew how to use it.  Oh yeah, I want 60+ Hz, non-interlaced, so
don't try to sit on a pixel bus somewhere and assemble frames for me.

-Jonathan		JVC Labs	uunet!jvc!jonathan