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From: kent@wsl.dec.com (Christopher A. Kent)
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Subject: Re: Why do so many "great" people dislike X?
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Date: 6 Sep 90 04:54:32 GMT
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The BBN Bitgraph and BLIT are approximate contemporaries. In fact,
the folks at Bell Labs got their BLIT code running on the Bitgraph,
even though they grumbled a lot because the "bits went the wong way".

Bitgraphs were fun. BBN developed a little window system for them,
(though I don't think it ever made it out of the company), and a few
places went pretty nuts with them. I still remember fondly the Spacee
Invaders and PacMan games we had that ran completely in the terminal,
complete with accurate sound effects...

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