Am 07.03.2012 21:15, schrieb Warp:
> James Holsenback<nom### [at] nonecom>  wrote:
>> Pretty much the path I took as well ... one big difference! At first I
>> thought it was absurd to have two displays, but now I find I couldn't
>> even imagine settling for just one display. The extra "real estate" is a
>> must for development work.
>
>    I remember the time when a graphics card with support for two displays
> was luxury (and a selling point). Nowadays they probably don't even make
> graphics cards without support for (at least) two monitors. (And this has
> been so for a pretty long time now.)

Anyone recall the days when a dual-screen workplace meant plugging in a 
monochrome graphics adapter next to your VGA card?

And yes, I did that back then. It made a nice debug output device - 
Turbo Pascal 6.0 even included native support for that.

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