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From: ron%brl-bmd@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: Re:  Blit solution to windows
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Date: Tue, 16-Aug-83 22:45:46 EDT
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From:      Ron Natalie <ron@brl-bmd>

First, I hope Warren Wake's request for the graphics terminal was
a joke.

Second, I don't know what you were looking at, but your statements
about the blit are not correct.  The BLIT uses a single multiplexed
serial line that talks to a special driver in the UNIX system.  There
is no hardware limitation on the number of windows as there is no
hardware support for windows at all.  The whole thing does what ever
you tell it to do when you load the control program into the 68000
inside it.

I like software because hardware has limitations, software does not.
It's too bad that Turing machines are so bad at I/O.

-Ron