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From: hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Adam Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: second thoughts on buying a 3000UX
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.113031.22667@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 11:30:31 GMT
References: <1145@applix.com> <1229@amix.commodore.com>
Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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In article <1229@amix.commodore.com> ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith "Cheese Whiz" Gabryelski) writes:

>We are looking into using the blitter for operations that it is suited
>for.  There is no reason for us to use the blitter in operations that
>would only run slower with it [`DUH' sound goes here].

  HEY KEITH!!

   I know what we need to show those SPARC-A/UX-AIX-Sequent people.
   The perfect use of the blitter under X is:

     64 color animated POINTERS!!!!!!

   Imagine a 64 color 3D image of the object of your choice.
   A Bill The Cat rotating in random directions, THWPTT!! 'ing you
when you click on it... Now if you could hook it into the Paula under
X you could have this nifty sound that goes like....... 

Nahhhhh Never mind... 
  

>-- 
>"[...] a POSIX implementation that |         Keith Gabryelski
>returns errors for practially every|  Amiga Unix Software Development
>operation is conformant (useless,  |      ag@amix.commodore.com
>but conformant)."    -- Chris Torek|       ...!cbmvax!amix!ag


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