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From: gcarter@globey.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A-Line Solution, AES and VDI
Keywords: Blitter
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.161216.7677@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 16:12:16 GMT
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Hello! 

    I am getting a MEGA 4...whenever the DAM THING GETS HERE, and I and a few
of my friends are pondering just what good a blitter chip actually is on
the ST, and if it offers any advantages over the software blitters.	

  Some of the technical stuff I have seen suggests that the blitter is mainly
meant to off load cpu time so the 68000 can be doing other things instead
of doing blit's.

  Thats the only advantages I can see over the software blitters, anyone
get this impression from line-A SALAD stuff???

--Gregory