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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: PC X servers / backing store
Message-ID: <9103071139.AA12081@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 7 Mar 91 11:39:24 GMT
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>> In one system I know of [...], backing store guarantees are
>> absolute: you won't lose any of your old bits.

>> In return, attempts to configure windows and create windows fail
>> when the window system runs out of memory in which to maintain
>> backing store.

> Is it possible to imagine a server that has access to a sufficiently
> large area of disk, so that really LRU windows get dumped there?

> Didn't we used to call disk "backing store"?

This sounds to me like a conventional X server running on a workstation
that supports virtual memory backed by a large chunk of disk space.
Did you mean something different, and if so, what?

					der Mouse

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