Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Oct 1996 01:28:37 +0000 (GMT) | From | Philip Blundell <> | Subject | Re: scrollback |
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On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Egor Egorov wrote:
> There is a real need of separate scrollback for each console. I think, we can > do it as a kernel option - save scrollback in videobuffer or in real ram. In > second case, scrollback will be saved for each console separatelly. > > How d'you think ?
It's certainly an option, and it might well be worth having -- an 80x25 screen only takes 2k or so of RAM, which isn't much on a 16MB machine. You'd implement it by having the rollback in videoram as it is now, and just copying the _entire_ video buffer into some other storage when a VC change happens. This would slow down VC switching a bit, but not much, and wouldn't have any other bad impacts.
P.
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