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From: mikem@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Mike Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Those offscreen pixels (Was Horz scan rates)
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Date: 13 Apr 91 19:56:58 GMT
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Patrick Flynn wrote:
>So what does NextStep do (if anything) with the 1/9 of VRAM that won't fit
>on the screen?  I hate to see memory go to waste ;-)

The same problem comes up for the Macintosh, where variable screen depth
means that as much as 7/8 or more of your VRAM may be unused.

Anyone want to figure out a way to use this memory on either machine as
a secondary disk cache?  Then you could call it a "videodisk" ;-)

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