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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Blitter disappointment (was: Time to create comp.sys.atari.flames)
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Date: 30 Nov 89 15:08:00 GMT
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In article <1819@atari.UUCP> kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) writes:
>As an aside, I should point out that our VDI guy has put a lot of work
>into the blit code for the TT, and it's pretty phenomenal _without_
>hardware assist.  One other thing that will give a noticeable improvement
>is the lack of Line F compression in STE and TT ROMs.  The Line F
>compression adds a bit of overhead to AES operations, and desktop/window/
>dialog operations are noticeably sped up when the compression is gone.

"Duuuhhhh" (he says in embarassed stupefaction),
"Whut's 'Line F compression'?"

I know what you mean by "Line F", but what's the "compression" refer to re:
ST ROMs?  (Usually I'm only this dense on Mondays & national holidays...)

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