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badc0ffeetoday at 4:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

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


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EvanAndersontoday at 4:36 PM

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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