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- From: byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer)
- Subject: Re: Need Faster Screen Refresh and Better Focus.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.184500.20952@adobe.com>
- Sender: usenet@adobe.com (USENET NEWS)
- Reply-To: byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer)
- Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
- References: <C0EGyy.HFK@Novell.COM>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:45:00 GMT
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- Tony Wosnjuk writes
-
- > Is nice to see some different colors for a change, but my screen
- > is not as sharp as before (Black and White) and the refresh takes
- > much longer when going from one application to another. The new
- > windows(open applications) seems like to row halfway, stop and
- > continue. This is specially true when openning mail, file viewer,
- > or any app which occupies a big enough part of the screen.
-
- > Does anybody know what I could do to make the response time of the
- > interface faster. I have 16M of memory, monitor model no. N4001,
- > .
-
- > Oh, please don't tell me to buy more memory.
-
- Nope, sorry. Gonna HAFTA tell you to do that.
-
- The pause you are seeing is the window buffer getting paged in off
- of disk. 16M is barely adequate for a monochrome station, and when
- you consider that the screen framebuffer and window buffers occupy
- 4 times as much memory - OUCH!
-
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