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What is amusing to me, is that started programming on a 20 x 80 line terminal (Beehive Bee3), then got spoiled by a 25 line by 80 character terminal, and then one with multiple 'pages'. When I got to Sun and had all that space of a 'workstation' I could never imagine going back to a single terminal, then I got two monitors and couldn't imagine going back to one (although I operate that way in a pinch on some systems). Certainly there is always "something" to put up in the extra real estate.

At the moment I think my ideal is 3 (a 2K landscape in the middle) and two vertical 1080P monitors, one on either side. I'd really like something like a 2440 x 800 "strip" to put along the bottom for a high res "task bar" kind of deal but can't find anyone with that particular glass and I don't want to glue together two 1280 x 800 panels.

One trick though is keeping the PPI the same (or close) on the monitors so that things don't distort weirdly when they move from one to the other.




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