Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA!Kenny_Leung From: userCONK@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Kenny Leung) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Those offscreen pixels (Was Horz scan rates) Message-ID: Date: 17 Apr 91 16:40:08 GMT References: <492@rosie.NeXT.COM> <1991Apr12.185441.20166@news.nd.edu> <12453@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Organization: MTS Univ of Alberta Lines: 23 In article <12453@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>, mikem@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Mike Morton) writes: >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" ;-) > > -- Mike Morton // P.O. Box 11299, Honolulu, HI 96828, (808) 676-6966 HST > Internet: mikem@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu > (anagrams): Mr. Machine Tool; Ethical Mormon; Chosen Immortal; etc. The extra memory is probably used for imaging things off screen and then moving them on-screen. This is used to give the illu- sion of better performance. Ever wonder where the pictures are being imaged when Writenow or some other application displays a box labelled "Imaging Graphic"? #! r