#: 5142 S15/Hot Topics
    13-Jul-90  06:22:13
Sb: #5132-#GUI
Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
To: Frank Hogg 70310,317

Oh gracious. Hmmmm. The driver is just under 8K at the moment. Each device
takes 512 bytes of static storage. In the final version, I estimate the driver
to expand out to maybe 15K+. About the size of the coco code. The actual window
manager will add on some, but not much.

So the program code is nothing compared to the memory required for video
itself. A minimum screen is over 64K. An interlaced screen can run up to maybe
140K . So your absolute best case is 15 screens out of the
1-meg video RAM. Not so bad... I doubt most people have more than a half-dozen
open on their coco, at max.

That about cover things?

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