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From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: PC X servers / backing store
Message-ID: <19737@paperboy.OSF.ORG>
Date: 7 Mar 91 21:27:14 GMT
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mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse) writes:
|> > 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?
|> 
|> 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?

Considering the context included this:

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

I'm really thinking of a server running on a machine that has a
limited virtual address space, but access to a large amount of
ordinary file space (like a PC on a network).  Then, using
conventional file storage, one could take the architectural decision
to go the next step.

I'm still assuming we're talking about an application that absolutely
requires backing store, and runs in the proverbial environment which
is highly controlled.
-- 
David Brooks				dbrooks@osf.org
Systems Engineering, OSF		uunet!osf.org!dbrooks
"It's not easy, but it is simple."