2 Responses for "Because No Monitor Is Ever Big Enough"

1. knight37

   March 7th, 2005 at 3:11 pm

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   STB Systems was making multi-monitor cards back in the early 90’s. They had something called the “MVP” line of cards, one was a 2-monitor card and another was a 4-monitor card. You could also put multiple cards in the same PC, so you could have up to 4 MVP-4’s, for a total of 16-monitors hooked to one PC. These cards were pretty pricy, something on the neighborhood of $4000 for the MVP-4, and about $2500 for the MVP-2. The typical buyers of these cards were airlines, for displaying flight information on multiple screens, and stock brokers, for displaying information about a bunch of stocks at the same time.

2. JC

   March 8th, 2005 at 9:20 am

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   Matrox has had 4 monitor cards for a very long time. They’re single cards with 4 GPUs. You can configure them 2 up/2 down, 4 side-by-side, 4 on top of each other, or just 4 copies of the same thing. They’re mostly used for the sorts of business knight referred to above, but also for things like autocad and the like.