History
Contemporary windowing systems, such as the X Window System (used by GNU/Linux) and those used by Microsoft Windows and Mac OS, all support simultaneous use of multiple monitors. Multi-monitor support once depended on specialized proprietary video drivers and support from windowing systems and window managers. Support for multiple monitor configurations was added as a standard feature in Microsoft Windows in Windows 98, and has been a standard feature of Apple's Mac OS since the introduction of the first color Macintosh II in 1987.
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“It’s nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I’m bloody close.”
—John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten)
“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“The only history is a mere question of one’s struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)