Subject: Re: Patch to add console scrollback support.
To: None <wojtek@3miasto.net>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/01/2001 14:25:38
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 wojtek@3miasto.net wrote:

# Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 22:44:52 +0200 (CEST)
# From: wojtek@3miasto.net
# To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
# Cc: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>,
#      Lord Isildur <mrfusion@umbar.vaxpower.org>, tech-kern@netbsd.org
# Subject: Re: Patch to add console scrollback support.
#
# > and possibly data space.  I can't see it taking too much more in code
# > space, and even if you have (8 screens) * (8 pages) * (80 columns) * (50
# > rows), that's only 256k of data space.
#
# 256k is large amount on 8MB system

So tune it back to fit the system.  You probably will wind up using fewer
pages, a larger font, or fewer screens.

In any case, one buffer is not sufficient!


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