diff --git a/src/terminal/main.zig b/src/terminal/main.zig
index 0324556aa..b238b41f7 100644
--- a/src/terminal/main.zig
+++ b/src/terminal/main.zig
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ test {
 
     _ = @import("new/hash_map.zig");
     _ = @import("new/page.zig");
+    _ = @import("new/Screen.zig");
     _ = @import("new/size.zig");
     _ = @import("new/style.zig");
 }
diff --git a/src/terminal/new/Screen.zig b/src/terminal/new/Screen.zig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fbef50aef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/terminal/new/Screen.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+const Screen = @This();
+
+const std = @import("std");
+const Allocator = std.mem.Allocator;
+const assert = std.debug.assert;
+const pagepkg = @import("page.zig");
+const Page = pagepkg.Page;
+
+// Some magic constants we use that could be tweaked...
+
+/// The number of PageList.Nodes we preheat the pool with. A node is
+/// a very small struct so we can afford to preheat many, but the exact
+/// number is uncertain. Any number too large is wasting memory, any number
+/// too small will cause the pool to have to allocate more memory later.
+/// This should be set to some reasonable minimum that we expect a terminal
+/// window to scroll into quickly.
+const page_preheat = 4;
+
+/// The default number of unique styles per page we expect. It is currently
+/// "32" because anecdotally amongst a handful of beta testers, no one
+/// under normal terminal use ever used more than 32 unique styles in a
+/// single page. We found outliers but it was rare enough that we could
+/// allocate those when necessary.
+const page_default_styles = 32;
+
+/// The list of pages in the screen. These are expected to be in order
+/// where the first page is the topmost page (scrollback) and the last is
+/// the bottommost page (the current active page).
+const PageList = std.DoublyLinkedList(Page);
+
+/// The memory pool we get page nodes from.
+const PagePool = std.heap.MemoryPool(PageList.Node);
+
+/// The general purpose allocator to use for all memory allocations.
+/// Unfortunately some screen operations do require allocation.
+alloc: Allocator,
+
+/// The memory pool we get page nodes for the linked list from.
+page_pool: PagePool,
+
+/// The list of pages in the screen.
+pages: PageList,
+
+/// The page that contains the top of the current viewport and the row
+/// within that page that is the top of the viewport (0-indexed).
+viewport: *PageList.Node,
+viewport_row: usize,
+
+/// The cursor position.
+const Cursor = struct {
+    // The x/y position within the viewport.
+    x: usize = 0,
+    y: usize = 0,
+
+    // The page that the cursor is on and the offset into that page that
+    // the current y exists.
+    page: *PageList.Node,
+    page_row: usize,
+};
+
+/// Initialize a new screen.
+pub fn init(
+    alloc: Allocator,
+    cols: usize,
+    rows: usize,
+    max_scrollback: usize,
+) !Screen {
+    _ = max_scrollback;
+
+    // The screen starts with a single page that is the entire viewport,
+    // and we'll split it thereafter if it gets too large and add more as
+    // necessary.
+    var pool = try PagePool.initPreheated(alloc, page_preheat);
+    errdefer pool.deinit();
+
+    var page = try pool.create();
+    // no errdefer because the pool deinit will clean up the page
+
+    page.* = .{
+        .data = try Page.init(alloc, .{
+            .cols = cols,
+            .rows = rows,
+            .styles = page_default_styles,
+        }),
+    };
+    errdefer page.data.deinit(alloc);
+
+    var page_list: PageList = .{};
+    page_list.prepend(page);
+
+    return .{
+        .alloc = alloc,
+        .page_pool = pool,
+        .pages = page_list,
+        .viewport = page,
+        .viewport_row = 0,
+    };
+}
+
+pub fn deinit(self: *Screen) void {
+    // Deallocate all the pages. We don't need to deallocate the list or
+    // nodes because they all reside in the pool.
+    while (self.pages.popFirst()) |node| node.data.deinit(self.alloc);
+    self.page_pool.deinit();
+}
+
+test {
+    const testing = std.testing;
+    const alloc = testing.allocator;
+
+    var s = try Screen.init(alloc, 80, 24, 1000);
+    defer s.deinit();
+}