Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.tech:15198 comp.sys.amiga:69032 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!ims103 From: IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu (Ian Matthew Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Blitter, AmigaDOS and Multitasking Message-ID: <90289.211754IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu> Date: 17 Oct 90 01:17:54 GMT References: <2354@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> Organization: Penn State University Lines: 6 If I remember right, the blitter is used in read/write operation on the Amiga 3.5 floppies. Disk buffers have to be in CHIP mem so I assume some of the DOS routines need to use some blitter functions when you have owned teh blitter. Ian Smith