more windows on unixpc (screen memory)

Todd Day todd at ivucsb.UUCP
Tue Apr 25 01:40:29 AEST 1989


In article <482 at limbic.UUCP> gil at limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) writes:
~So, correctly speaking, what should really happen is: 1) have AT&T increase
~the amount of windows compiled-into the window driver [a memory waste for
~those who don't use a lot of windows],

But won't the new window driver just eat more kernel memory?  It seems to me
that there is a LOT of unused kernel memory, and adding a few more window
structures doesn't seem like it will put a real drain on available kernel
memory...

BTW, when you open a window, where does the memory that holds all the
points within that window get allocated?  Certainly, there must be two
updates every time something is written to the screen (1 for the
actual screen memory and another one so the computer can do windowing).

Also, where is the screen memory mapped to?

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