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From: szymans@utecfa.UUCP (Ted Szymanski)
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Subject: cider seminar on the Atari Blit
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 12:11:30 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 12:11:30 1986
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                       The Atari Blit
             By David Blythe and Dave Galloway
                        Room GB 221
                        Time: 12:05
                Date: Friday, Feb. 7th, 1986
                          Abstract
 The Blit terminal, developed at AT&T Bell Laboratories, is
a bit-mapped display terminal that  supports  an  overlapped
window  environment under UNIX.  Designed 4 years ago, it is
commercially available for about $10000.
The Atari 520ST is a new  personal  computer  available  for
less  than  $1400.   It  contains,  except  for  a few minor
differences, the same hardware as the Blit does.  We  worked
on  converting  the Blit software to run on the Atari 520ST.
This talk will describe the two machines, explain the  prob-
lems  we  faced,  and summarize our work.  We will then talk
about what we learned, and whether it was a good idea.
With luck, a demo of the Blit and the Atari Blit will be in-
cluded.