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Subject: Blit Terminal
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Date: Wed, 23-Apr-86 05:01:40 EST
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>I just read on att.blit that the University of Toronto has developed
>and is currently using a 5620(blit) terminal emulator in a ROM
>cartridge for the 520ST (mono).  Does anyone know if this is true?
>If this is cartridge exists I would like to buy one and I'm sure a
>lot of other people would too. Can anybody out there confirm or deny
>this??? I think a product like this would be a great boost to ST
>sales, I hope it makes it to the market place.

                        R.T. Bradstrum
This is true: Dave Galloway at the U of Toronto Computer Science
Research Centre is the person to talk to. I saw a demo of the
BLIT emulation: the ST was hooked up to a VAX system by a 9600
baud line and was running a number of windows in a multiplexed
manner. It looked like a small SUN worksation, very smooth.
The snag in marketing this thing is that AT&T would have to licence
it, since it was a port of existing software. The original BLIT
was $10,000 (!) so don't get your hopes up.
Peter Hiscocks