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Subject: Re: The Apple ][ was cool!
From: Dave <david.gallagher@blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:24:52 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.sinclair, comp.sys.tandy
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Whoops - sorry, hit the wrong button :-)

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 02:16:56 -0700, Leonard Erickson
<shadow@krypton.rain.com> wrote:

>You may note that the PC could have both a mono and a CGA video card in
>ti at the same time without them interfering with each other. You could
>even do that with a Hercules card and an EGA or VGA adapter if you set
>the Herc card to not use page 1 of its memory.

And very welcome it was too!  Debugging info on the mono screen while the
program runs on the colour one.  AutoCad also used this "feature" as an
optional way of getting back more screen space.  Command line and status
stuff went to the mono screen while the graphics went to the colour
screen.

Dave

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