Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

[Leonard Erickson <shadow@krypton.rain.com>]

Dave wrote:
> 
> 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.

And Lotus would put the spreadsheet on the mono screen and the graph on
the color screen. Or vice versa.

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