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- From: murphy@burfle.dco.dec.com (Rick Murphy)
- Subject: Re: Background
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.034616.21562@decuac.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 03:46:16 GMT
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- I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this -
- A nice picture in the background may be appealing, but - you've got to store
- the image somewhere. Expect to eat 1280*1024 bytes (i.e. over a megabyte) of
- memory holding your background image.
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- The boring background patterns save a LOT of memory. :-)
- -Rick
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- Rick Murphy, WA1SPT/4 Washington Open Systems Resource Center
- Domain: murphy@dco.dec.com This posting expresses MY opinions only;
- Bang: decwrl!burfle.enet!murphy I do not speak for Digital.
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