Swordfish comp

Glitchny

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I know this may sound like an odd question, but does anybody know what OS is being used in the movie "Swordfish" to run his 6 flatscreen monitor setup? Does windows support this at all, or is it somethng tottally made up? And what kind of hardware would you need to set up a system like that?
 

Spoooon

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I bet it's some fake thing. All those movies seem to have neat looking GUIs that are totally impractical.
 

yobarman

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i have a computer like the one in the movie...


im reading atot on screen 1, and looking at porn on screens 5 through 6.
 

ElFenix

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Originally posted by: yobarman
i have a computer like the one in the movie...


im reading atot on screen 1, and looking at porn on screens 5 through 6.

you could be looking at pr0n on screens 2, 3, and 4 as well.
 

Howard

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I don't know about the OS as I haven't seen the movie, but Windows 98 can handle up to 9 screens.
 

ChrisIsBored

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Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: yobarman
i have a computer like the one in the movie...


im reading atot on screen 1, and looking at porn on screens 5 through 6.

you could be looking at pr0n on screens 2, 3, and 4 as well.

screw it... where are your priorities? You should have a browser open with porn on screen 1 as well!
 

yobarman

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Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: yobarman
i have a computer like the one in the movie...


im reading atot on screen 1, and looking at porn on screens 5 through 6.

you could be looking at pr0n on screens 2, 3, and 4 as well.

damnit im tired... i meant 2 through 6... well i shot that joke to crap.

 

yakko

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Originally posted by: Howard
I don't know about the OS as I haven't seen the movie, but Windows 98 can handle up to 9 screens.

I remember going to the launch of 98 and they made a big deal about this.
 

Glitchny

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does anybody know how to set it up? like what do you need to run all the monitors etc?(like multiple graphics cards or what?) how does it handle games?
 

Ameesh

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Originally posted by: Glitchny
does anybody know how to set it up? like what do you need to run all the monitors etc?(like multiple graphics cards or what?) how does it handle games?

i run multimon at home and work, its easy you can iether put multiple cards in your box or have cards that support more then one monitor like gf4 or parahelia.