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To: Mihai Cartoaje <mcartoaj@mat.ulaval.ca>
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Subject: Re: the name "framebuffer"
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From: Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>
Date: 14 Dec 2001 16:54:53 -0500
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Mihai Cartoaje <mcartoaj@mat.ulaval.ca> writes:

> As you may recall from chemistry classes, a buffer is a solutee that
> reduces pH  variations. Since the initials VGA in IBM's display
> adapter stand for, "video graphics array," I recommend changing the
> name of the devices from "framebuffer" to "video array." I shall
> like to know what other people think.

As you may recall, this isn't chemistry.  ;)

In computer science, a "buffer" is a chunk of memory used for data
storage.  The term "framebuffer" has been used for at least 10 years,
makes perfect sense, and is well understood.

-Doug
-- 
Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
   --T. J. Jackson, 1863
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