From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: 7eggert@gmx.de
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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