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Subject:Re: Contiguous monitors? From:Arlen P Walker <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 2 Feb 1999 10:54:00 -0600
David Goldfayl <<...really need[s] to set-up contiguous screens on a
Win '95-Pentium II box so that I can get some reasonable desktop real
estate going. Having multiple apps open and used concurrently is
miserable on a single 17" screen. I never want to work with very
large monitors again, so that is not an option.>>
I don't think you can do this in Win95, other than with certain
high-end CAD systems that explicitly support this function.
I know I really shouldn't mention this, but as I read that I was
remembering doing page layout on a Mac II back in the late 80's (86?, 87?)
where I had a color monitor and a grey-scale one, and I kept the menus,
controls, and tool palettes on the grey-scale and had the whole of the
color monitor to work in, with the two monitors arranged as a single long
workspace. Thanks, I'd forgotten how good (comparatively) I'd had it back
then.
Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 224
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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