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From: bpendlet@esunix.UUCP (Bob Pendleton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Contents of windows
Message-ID: <1306@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 18:03:12 GMT
References: <4037@ficc.uu.net>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland, Salt Lake City, Utah
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From article <4037@ficc.uu.net>, by peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva):

>And given that 386 UNIX machines with enough RAM to run X typically burn a Meg
>for disk buffers, complaining about a bit of backing store doesn't really make
>a whole lot of sense.

A bit of backing store? Lets see, my default xterm window size is
80x60 using an 8x13 font so that is 499200 pixels. On a machine with
32 bits/pixel (yes, such machines exist and run X) thats 1,996,800
bytes or 1.95 megabytes.

Please don't write applications that depend on backing store. Unless
it gets written into the standard, you aren't always going to have it.

			Bob P.
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