[Coco] Dual monitors on a Coco 3?

[Paul Shoemaker]

Hi Bill,
I think one is typically red and slightly misshapen, and the other is round and orange.
To clarify my intent, because I'm not completely delusional I wasn't comparing the CoCo to modern PCs which certainly can do everything that you said.  I was intending to compare the CoCo with the IBM PC of its day.  In 1986/87, I believe most PC users were using either PC-DOS or MS-DOS, and a few folks may have been running Windows 2.0.
But mostly I was just sharing my enthusiasm about learning something new about my old CoCo.  For real.
-Paul

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That's amazing, isn't it?  Our favorite $200 8-bit computer could run THREE video displays simultaneously back in 1986!  Mainstream MS-DOS/Windows PCs couldn't do that until, what... the late 90's?  And even then the needed to do it was definitely not cheap.
What a cool little machine we have.

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Seriously?  Does the term apples and oranges mean anything to you?
The PC can have totally differnt desktops or  a really large one spread
accross multiple monitors.  All three on the COCO will only display the
same thing and two of them with limited capabilities.

The COCO is a cool machine and has capabilites far beyond other 
equivalent systems of the time, but lets at least keep it real.

bill
 

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