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From: glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: asd
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.102137.4230@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 19 Dec 90 10:21:37 GMT
References: <925@boing.UUCP>
Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland
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In article <925@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>in a way to use 100% of the available memory bandwidth. At the same time it
>keeps track of 4 address registers, incrementing to the next memory locations
>and checking for end of line and rectangle conditions. Applying modules when
>necessary.  Amd no empty memory cycles.

This is correct is it?  My reading of the Amiga System Programmers
Guide was that the blitter was assigned either odd/even (can't 
remember which) and that was all it could use.  I was not impressed
at the thought of empty memory cycles, so I am hopeful that the
Abacus book is wrong again, or at least badly written.

>Dale Luck
>-- 
>Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
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Matt Crowd       Amiga Man
Email Address    glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au