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Actually, the smarts to handle the 4 monitors is on the Matrox card. All
your system sees is a really big screen. -uf
At 10:57 PM 1/22/00 -0500, you wrote:
>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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