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From: Dimitri Maziuk
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 00:00

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Bill Holder wrote:
> 
> On 23 Jun 1996 12:12:06 +0930, pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au (Peter
> Childs) wrote:
> 
> >Bill Holder (bill@tempest.com.au) wrote:
> >: Will Linux support two video cards and two monitors, being able to
> >: display differnet things on each, not just a copy of each other?
> >
> > Depending on what you want to do..    If you are talking a VGA and
> > a MDA system, then yes.
> >
... snip ...
>         by this, do you mean two seperate video cards won't cut it?
> 

Not if they use same video RAM addresses (MDA and VGA don't) and can't
figure out who owns which portion of RAM.

Dimitri
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