[geeks] sgi i2 opengl/glut perf question

[Dave McGuire]

On December 13, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:51:57PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > On December 13, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > > which will eat of more memory.  Plus, does one RE2 boardset support multiple 
> > > heads?  If so, that is even more memory gone really fast. 
> > 
> >   You can put six heads on an RE2 with the MCO board.
> 
> True, but they aren't really seperate heads.  They are 6 regions being grabbed
> from the main framebuffer and spit out to video.  It is cool, but not something
> that does you much good if you were interested in multiple 20" hi-res monitors.
> 
> Or at least, that is the way the MCO at school works.  I suppose there might be
> other ways to configure it.  

  I dunno Josh, I'd definitely call six monitors on one computer
"multi-headed"...you can nitpick all you want. ;)

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL