Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Console debugging wishlist was: Re: oops pauser. | Date | Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:13:26 +0100 |
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On Sunday 15 January 2006 17:48, Bodo Eggert wrote: > Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > > > (it is hard to understand that with 128MB+ graphic cards and 512+MB > > computers the scroll back must be still so short...) > > The VGA scrollback buffer is limited by the text area of the video RAM. > The text area is in the DOS memory at 0xB800 (or 0xB000) and extends > 32 KB (or in case of MDA, 4 KB). Each character will use 2 Bytes. > Therefore you can store up to 16,000 characters or 4 pages of text.
It was a rhetorical question.
-Andi
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