Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!esosun!smithey
From: smithey@esosun.UUCP (Brian Smithey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Contents of windows
Message-ID: <466@esosun.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 89 00:17:17 GMT
References: <8904251538.AA00185@devnull.sun.com> <3985@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: smithey@esosun.css.gov.UUCP (Brian Smithey)
Organization: Science Applications International Corp, San Diego
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In article <3985@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Now I may be dim, but I don't see how the lack of a guaranteed backing store
>leads to the increased portability of X. One might as well say that the ability
>to operate without a mouse leads to the increased portability of Microsoft
>Windows (yes, Windows works quite well without a mouse). If the display server
>doesn't have a backing store it can be emulated in the client library, though

If the client can get enough memory ...

>I find it hard to imagine a hardware system that can support X that doesn't
>have memory to burn.

How about the servers for non-virtual memory micros, such as the Amiga
and Mac?

>Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.


Brian


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