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Re: Need Faster Screen Refresh and Better Focus.

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From: andrew
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:40
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In article <C0EGyy.HFK@Novell.COM> Tony Wosnjuk writes:
>
>I just got hold of a NeXTstation COLOR. I was very excited at first.
>
>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, .
>
>Any good tweakers out there.
>
>Oh, please don't tell me to buy more memory.

Buy more memory.


The problem is that you are using quite a bit more memory than you
have RAM.  So what's happening is pages of memory are being stored on
disk, and it takes significantly longer to retrieve them.  That's why
the windows take a long time to "appear."

The only other solution is to use less memory.


andrew
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Subject: Re: Need Faster Screen Refresh and  Better Focus.
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