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re: Tracking shortcuts and the early history of multiple monitors

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Those monitors aren't being used for displaying UI. They're just screens. (Unless you think you're going to take your mouse and go drag drag drag drag drag all the way to monitor number 35.) You probably don't want to be pumping pixels to all of them - just let them be screens hard-wired to the cameras. -Raymond

You're missing the point here Ray, it's economics. Those venues that pays a LOT (as in tens of thousands) for that special hardware only to have those monitors directly connected to a high resolution camera could save a lot of money - and they KNOW it!! - only if Windows would raise the limit to at least 100 monitors. And did I mention it in the process of doing so they would buy Windows licences? Is a win-win situation for both those venues and Micro$oft. In today world of economics none cares if you would use the microscope as nut cracker? As long as the microscope is cheaper than the hammer everybody would buy a microscope to crack the nuts. So they would use a monitor ("15 are max $100) and a high video processing PC with a Windows (~$2500) is a lot cheaper then their current set-up which at minimum is $20,000.

[You seem to think that increasing the number of monitors is as simple as changing a #define and recompiling. "It will just work! No need to test it or performance-tune it." Remember the twenty-foot-long computer. It was totally unusable because of the latency. -Raymond]

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