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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga mentality
Message-ID: <16540@estelle.udel.EDU>
Date: 11 Apr 90 17:03:07 GMT
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Reply-To: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <3452@newton.physics.purdue.edu> sho@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>When windows are obscured on the Amiga, does the OS keep around a
>bitmap of the covered area, or is the program responsible for
>remembering what was there?  

Both.  It depends on whether when you open the window you ask the graphics
library to remember obscured portions or not. There is also "super-bitmap"
windows where you keep your own bitmap and what is displayed on the screen
is a portion (like out of the middle) of your bitmap.  -- Darren