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Article #4913Re: Need Faster Screen Refresh and Better Focus.
From: Scott Byer
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 18:45
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 18:45
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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! -- Scott Byer NeXTMail: byer@mv.us.adobe.com Adobe Systems Incorporated These are *my* opinions, and 1585 Charleston Road, P.O. Box 7900 do not necessarily reflect Mountain View, CA 94039-7900 the opinions of my employer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!concert!decwrl!adobe!usenet 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 Lines: 28