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Display vs Scrollback - What's the difference?

display | scrollback |

In computing terms the difference between display and scrollback

is that display is an electronic screen that shows graphics or text while scrollback is the part of a scrolling display that precedes the current line or section.

As nouns the difference between display and scrollback

is that display is a show or spectacle while scrollback is the part of a scrolling display that precedes the current line or section.

As a verb display

is to spread out, to unfurl.

display

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A show or spectacle.
  • (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.

    • See also

    * characters * CRT * cursor * digits * graphics * monitor * screen * VDU

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.v:
    • The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display , / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].
  • To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
  • To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
    • (Farrow)
  • (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
  • (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
  • * Chapman
    • And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.

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    scrollback

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (computing) The part of a scrolling display that precedes the current line or section.
  • * 1993 , InfoWorld magazine (volume 15, number 15, April 1993)
    • The program can hold as many as 5000 lines of a session in a scrollback buffer.
  • * 1995 , Charles Rubin, The Macintosh bible guide to ClarisWorks 4
    • New communications documents are set for a scrollback area of unlimited size...
  • * 2005 , Dave Taylor, Learning UNIX for Mac OS X Tiger
    • The scrollback buffer allows you to scroll back and review earlier commands and command output.

    Synonyms

    * backscroll

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