I think it's just that monitors were so much more expensive then, especially those capable of the 350-line EGA mode.

EvanAnderson 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm sure that was a factor. As much as certain job roles today love multi-head (I'm particularly thinking head spreadsheet users) I could still have seen it being a possibility. Certainly, multi-head for AutoCAD was "a thing" pretty early, albeit the paradigm there was one monitor for graphics and another for text.

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genxy 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Multihead for debugging full screen apps is/was pretty sweet. Now we just use ssh or a remote debugger. I haven't finished the video, fingers crossed that he hooked 4 joysticks for multiplayer pong.

Didn't realize how wholesome 8bit guy is, great channel.

	▲	utopcell 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Id soft folks were using 2 graphics cards, an EGA/VGA and an MDA one to do multihead debugging. It was possible because the two card technologies actually mapped their frame buffers onto two separate address ranges. Cool stuff.

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