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Re: Backing Store Question [message #45645 is a reply to message #45465]

Fri, 16 September 2005 13:09

David Fanning
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Karl Schultz writes:

> The server may be able to repair with backing store at one
> point in time, and then may fail to do so later if resources (memory) get
> too tight. So, the entire backing store functionality is a little bit
> unsteady in this respect. I think that backing store may have been more
> popular and important in older systems when it took longer to render
> things. Nowadays, I'm a little hard-pressed to find X servers that can be
> configured to use backing store. I know that some of the latest Xorg
> servers do not support it.

I'm really surprised by the last two sentences. I would have
thought that with computer memory so cheap that this would
be a common service of any X server. I'm surprised to hear
there are modern X servers that don't support it at all.

So, bottom line, are direct graphics so "1970s" that they
won't even run on modern computers? No wonder RSI is spending
all my maintenance dollars on object graphics! I'm beginning
to see the light. :-)

Cheers,

David
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