Re: Console debugging wishlist was: Re: oops pauser.

[Bodo Eggert]

Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> 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.

-- 
Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF
verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.
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