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Re: RT6.0C emacs and "sink" bitmap

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John D. Kubiatowicz)
Thu Sep 15 22:19:50 1988

To: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 15 Sep 88 20:13:03 -0400.
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 88 22:19:07 EDT
From: John D. Kubiatowicz <kubitron@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
No, no, no...

I said that it ALLOCATES a bitmap.  I didn't say that it used it.  What 
this means is that another chunk of off-screen cache is wasted needlessly.

... I also said that this is probably not a big deal, since the bitmap
is small...

--KUBI--

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