Inexpensive world wide web terminal appliance using disk synchronized with raster refresh for storage of displayed pages
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Mar 31, 1998
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Jun 28, 1996
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Jun 28, 1996
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A World Wide Web terminal appliance utilizes a disk drive for local storage of Web pages previously downloaded and rendered for display during the course of a Web surfing session. The disk drive rotates at a rate substantially in synchronization with a display refresh time interval of a display device, preferably a raster refresh cycle time of a video monitor. Therefore, the image being displayed need not occupy random-access memory, but rather is sent directly from the disk to a display interface for coupling to the display device. Little or no RAM buffering is required, so the appliance need not include a large quantity of video RAM storage. A relatively inexpensive disk is used instead, thereby bringing about advantageous cost savings.
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