A bitmap terminal contains 1200 by 800 pixels. To scroll a window, the CPU (or controller) must

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A bitmap terminal contains 1200 by 800 pixels. To scroll a window, the CPU (or controller) must move all the lines of text upward by copying their bits from one part of the video RAM to another. If a particular window is 66 lines high by 80 characters wide (5280 characters, total), and a character’s box is 8 pixels wide by 12 pixels high, how long does it take to scroll the whole window at a copying rate of 500 nsec per byte? If all lines are 80 characters long, what is the equivalent baud rate of the terminal? Putting a character on the screen takes 50 microsec. Now compute the baud rate for the same terminal in color, with 4 bits/pixel. 

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Operating Systems Design And Implementation

ISBN: 9780131429383

3rd Edition

Authors: Andrew Tanenbaum, Albert Woodhull

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