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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] RFC
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 16:48:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1e73ace089f013ea57ebebf34d4ff52@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)

On Fri May 17 10:53:19 EDT 2002, andrey@lanl.gov wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'd like to solicit 9fans' opinion on something that came up in
> discussions here at lanl recently -- multi-monitor displays and how
> plan9 could be modified to harness their power.
> ...

We had a summer student do this a few years ago, before the 3rd
Edition if I remember correctly. I don't know how it was done, but
I recall the mouse tracked nicely from screen to screen.

The hardware involved was a Carrera with its framebuffer and a
normal VGA card plugged into the EISA bus.

--jim


             reply	other threads:[~2002-05-17 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-17 20:48 jmk [this message]
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2002-05-17 21:38 rob pike, esq.
2002-05-17 21:30 rsc
2002-05-17 20:26 andrey mirtchovski
2002-05-17 15:24 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-05-17 13:59 andrey mirtchovski

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