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A friend of mine has 4 monitors on his TS 4 system, and it runs just fine.
In a message dated 00-01-22 21:20:38 EST, imarshal@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> I could understand why someone might want 2 monitors connected to a computer
> for monitoring the market. But anymore than that I think would be
> ridiculous. Think about it, the processor has to spend it's time not only
> receiving the data from the datafeed, storing it in memory and calling API
> sets to store in a local database, send it to another part of the system
for
> calcuations of indicators and such, as well as updating the visual display
> on BOTH systems... at a High Resolution?! Damn, talk about bringing your
> system to a crawl.
>
> Now, if you were to use these displays just as snapshots and not real time
> updates for short intervales (ie every tick) then maybe it won't be as
> ridiculous. Granted, I'm being extreme in my example but it's food for
> thought never the less. I figure you'd be better off buying a rack mounted
> system if you will, and connect dual monitors to each system.
>
> In addition, IF the program was written correctly the data stream can be
> shared between each system without having to subscribe multiple times to
the
> same datafeed.
>
> IMarshal
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