allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (03/13/86)
Expires: 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 -- In mid-winter, all of us Midwesterners would *love* a taste of California... (r-r-r-rumbleSHA-A-KE!!!) ...but not *that* badly! decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@Case.CSNET ncoast!tdi2!brandon (ncoast!tdi2!root for business) 6615 Center St. #A1-105, Mentor, OH 44060-4101 Phone: +01 216 974 9210 CIS 74106,1032 MCI MAIL BALLBERY (part-time) >>> Nominate Mark Leeper for a Hugo as Best Fan Writer of '85 <<< (I disagree with many of his reviews, but that's just me. He's better than most of what I see. Let's show the world what the NET is!)