From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 19:42:03 -0400
From: Andrew McVeigh andrew@abc.gov.au
Subject: Memory problems with 8-1/2
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Hi all,

I have managed to install Plan-9 and get 8-1/2 working @1024x768x8.
I really love the acme editor/environment and the excellent alef
language.

Anyway, I seem to only be able to open about 3 large windows...
If I have only one window on the screen then I can move it and
reshape it etc, but with three windows (depends on the size of each)
on the screen then all windowing operations seem to fail.  I seem
to remember seeing a message at one stage saying something like
"Out of Bitmap Memory"...  Is this the case or is something else
wrong?  Is there a fixed amount of memory allocated to windows?

Thanks for any help in advance,

Andrew McVeigh

p.s. replies by e-mail preferred, as my news feed is absurdly slow.