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From: rewing@Apple.COM (Richard Ewing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Multiple monitors (was: Xerox sues Apple!)
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Date: 31 Dec 89 10:31:16 GMT
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In article <2938@infmx.UUCP> aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney) writes:
>dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) writes:
>>[and I've tried so hard to stay out of this... :-) ]
>>
>> You've obviously not ever used a system that allowed you to use two screens
>>effectivly.  It's very nice to debug on one screen and run your code on the
>>other, just as much as simply having the extra screen real-estate.
>>...
>>  You could've very easily picked some of the expanssion options that are
>>truely debatable for usefullness, but saying the ability to configure a
>>multi-screen system is not a USEFUL system just shows how closed minded and
>>un-imformed you really are.
>
>Uh, Dave, how much have you used PCs?  As stated earlier, I have been running
>two monitors in my AT at home for quite a while, and I use them both for
>dual-screen debugging also.  What makes you think the PC world is incapable
>of such magic?
>
>Tough to configure, too.  Open the machine, add the mono card, screw it in,
>close the machine, turn on the power.  No switches to set, no muss, no fuss.
>To switch primary monitor to the mono, run "mode mono".  To switch back to 
>EGA, run "mode co80".  To enable the secondary monitor in the Informix-4GL
>debugger (for example), run "appl dev" (application device enable).
>Gee, that didn't hurt a bit.
>
>>David M. O'Rourke
>>Graduating in March of 1990, with a BS in Computer Science & need a Job. 
>
>In a Mac-only shop, I suppose...
>
>--
>  Alan S. Denney  @  Informix Software, Inc.    "We're homeward bound
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I think you're missing the point here.  No one said that a PC is incapable
of running two or more monitors; I've seen it done.  However, I think the
point is that in a Mac multiple monitor scenario, you can use it for
far many different purposes in *any* application.  Essentially,
the two (or more) monitors combine together to produce one *big*
virtual space in which windows can be dragged to and fro, or even overlap
from one screen to another (or more) without any complaints or
special configuration from the application.  Most PC setups in which
I have seen multiple moniTors involve weird or custom situations in
which the application must know how to deal with both screens.  I mean,
having the debugging window over on another screen is nice, but not
everybody deals with Codeview all his life to use this luxury.  On
the Mac, it doesn't matter what you run, or how you run it, or whether
one monitor is color, and the other monichrome.  "Mode mono"???  "Mode co80"?
"app dev"?!???  What the hell is that?  And why should I have to know
that?

EXERCISE:  Get a copy of Wingz (easy for those of you at Informix).  Get
a Mac with two monitors.  Open a mondo-big Wingz spreadsheet on the Mac.
Drag the window to cover both monitors.  Continue working.

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