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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: PC X servers / backing store
Message-ID: <1991Mar9.154127.27485@grebyn.com>
Date: 9 Mar 91 15:41:27 GMT
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In article <952@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>The Amiga guarentees backing store with it's SMART_REFRESH windows.

..and then, sometime later it crashes the system with an OUT OF MEMORY
alert when there is no longer enough chip RAM. Somehow I find I prefer
the X backing store policy that backing is no longer done when the
server cannot do it, however your application keeps running.
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