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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Subject: Sultiple logins on PC Un*xes
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Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 19:52:32 EST
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Quoted from <260@maynard.UUCP> ["Re: Re: UNIX Futures"], by campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)...
+---------------
| Pretty neat, but I wonder why they didn't do it for the monochrome
| display?  I hate the CGA;  I think its text display is completely
| unacceptable for day-in day-out use;  and the EGA is expensive.  I
| understand the technical difference between what it takes to do this
| for the CGA and what is required for the monochrome adapter (see
| below);  doing it for the mono adapter just isn't that hard.
+---------------

To save memory and time.  The hint was that you lose the other screens if you
use graphics; what they do is store each screen in a separate video page and
change the [CE]GA page register to swap screens.  Instantaneous, and you don't
need (80*25*2)K of RAM per screen to be eaten up out of your limited (even on
an AT with >1M!) memory.

Monochrome adapters don't have multiple text pages.

--Brandon
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