Re: Two monitors on one NeXTstation?

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From: Manuel Alberto Ricart
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:41

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In article <16393@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> kerchen@fuji.cs.ucdavis.edu (pall kerchen) writes:
>Is it possible to connect two monitors to a single NeXTstation?
>That is, I'd like to be able to connect another megapixel display,
>keyboard & mouse to my NeXTstation, thereby allowing two different
>users to run NeXTstep at the same time on the same machine.  I seem
>to recall reading something in the docs about such a feature but now
>I can't seem to find it.  If this capability is not currently
>available, does anyone know if it ever will be?  [Given NeXT's
>philosophy of "one machine per user", I'm not 

As far as I can recall you cannot do this. What you are able to
do is hook up another "terminal" type thing to the serial port.
Then you could have someone else work at the same time. Caveat
emptor: that will be an ascii terminal much in the spirit of 
the console. (Hey, Emacs ain't that bad!)

-- 
Manuel Alberto Ricart
alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome>

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