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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (16412)	1/20/1998 2:16:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Hello Keith, Yes, but the OS has to have support for making it so that there is one logical "display", so that for example, I can configure my two displays so that one is logically the left-hand side of the display and one is on the right, or one is on top of the other. That way, when I drag something past the edge of one screen, it will then show up on the other screen. Nope. Chaz was right ... no real value provided by Microsoft! They will finally support combining two video drivers into one screen. But they could have done that quite a while ago. In the systems that I use (ColorGraphics adapters), my video driver just pulls a standard programming manuever ... it lies to Windows and tells Windows that it is a 2048x768 video card. So Windows just thinks it's a big wide display and writes to the whole video RAM space. The card's hardware splits this into two video outputs on the card. So I get all the features today, transparently, without needing any new Windows software, or Microsoft enhancements. Scott C. Lemon