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From: renagade@galadriel.cm.deakin.oz.au (Mark Kuzmycz)
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Subject: Re: asd
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Date: 20 Dec 90 00:00:54 GMT
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>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.
Actually Abacus states that the blitter can use both all memory cycles if the programmer so chooses but the blitter should use only the odd cycles to allow the processer to run at full speed when using chip ram or in A500 fast ram at c000.
			  Mark.