You would be right fyrel. I was able to finally find it in my favorite computer repair and upgrade book. I had convinced myself the standard only applied to daisy chains.
You were right though, the first two can be any such random adapter to DVI, HDMI, or even VGA.
After 2, every additional monitor has to be an active adapter.
Thank you for your quick, and very accurate, reply fyrel.
You were faster than my book. lol