Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jinli
From: jinli@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Jin Tonic Li)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: How does BitBlt work?
Message-ID: <1989Aug27.145038.6566@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Date: 27 Aug 89 18:50:38 GMT
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Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
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Could someone tell me how the BitBlt microcode on the Xerox Alto and the 32-bit
barrel shifter on the original(I think newer Suns do not use it any more) Sun
workstation work?  They are supposed to increase the performance of scan
conversion.

Thank you in advance.

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