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To: Hal Rubel who wrote (7873)5/22/1998 11:52:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
Hal, multiple monitor feature has been available for Wintel prior to Win98, it's just that this is now a built-in feature. Prior to Win98, multiple monitor support was available through mid and hi-range video cards. I don't remember the brand, but a friend of mine paid $1,004 in March of 1997 for such a card, for doing AutoCad. Might have been the Elsa Gloria card. Of course, for $1,004 he got a lot more than multiple monitor support, so it's not like Win98 is going to eat off the plates of mid and hi-range card vendors.



To: Hal Rubel who wrote (7873)5/23/1998 12:19:00 AM
From: dumbmoney  Respond to of 74651
 
More like nice improvement. Right? Doesn't innovation mean something new under the sun? A new direction. Where do you suppose this idea may have come from? Why did it take so long?

If you had technical knowledge, you would know that until fairly recently PC hardware did not permit a happy coexistance of video cards. Microsoft is not responsible for IBM's poor design choices, but Intel and Microsoft work to evolve the platform.


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