>On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Bob Miller wrote: >> Rob Hudson wrote: >> > He's using this card, which can support up to 4 monitors... >> > http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/g200_mms/home.cfm >> "Imagine a beowulf cluster of those..." >> Actually, Matrox' page says the card can support 16 monitors, which >> is even better. > >Reading a little closer, it says each card can support only 4 monitors but >that one can use up to 4 cards at once (a beowulf cluster :) for a total >of 16 monitors (arranged in a circle around me on a donut-shaped daisy >wheel powered by a large motor controlled by the computer so I could spin >it around fast to any monitor I might want -- would be my choice :). > >-Chris
When I was a kid I dreamed of an arrangement like this but there were multiple layers of work surface doughnuts one above the other in a fixed cylindrical arrangement (like inside of a grain silo) and the chair and foot platform would raise up through them from a wide open room beneath the silo/cylinder using a hydraulic shaft (which rotated rather than the monitors) so you could access any work level. The main room had many of these activity shafts which people would show up to work in. All kinds of tools and data feeds would be available for the particular type of research or systems control being done in these emersive work tubes. Dexter
