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DisplayLink finds a home at Synaptics

It used to be a pain to hook up two or more monitors to a single computer. But with DisplayLink, it got much easier. You could plug one display into the video output (VGA, DVI) of the computer. Then connect the other monitors to a DisplayLink adapter and the DisplayLink adapter to a USB port. Load a small driver, and ...

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It used to be a pain to hook up two or more monitors to a single computer. But with DisplayLink, it got much easier. You could plug one display into the video output (VGA, DVI) of the computer. Then connect the other monitors to a DisplayLink adapter and the DisplayLink adapter to a USB port. Load a small driver, and presto—you had a multimonitor system. DisplayLink was founded in 2003 as Newnham Research and in 2006 the company renamed itself DisplayLink. The secret sauce was to intercept the Windows image, compress it, ship it out over USB, and then decompress
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