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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Cursor Management
Message-ID: <8812121311.AA03330@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 12 Dec 88 13:11:51 GMT
References: <40341100.7458@apollo.COM>
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   In the Apollo implementation, we make use of the fact that the map_entries
   field of the Visual doesn't have to be equal to 2**planes. We steal the high
   two slots for our cursor and make sure that map_entries is decremented
   accordingly.

A perfectly reasonable scheme.