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From: halloran@unirot.UUCP (Bob Halloran)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Blit Terminal
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Date: Thu, 24-Apr-86 14:37:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 24 14:37:32 1986
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In article <8604230718.AA01165@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> FCTY7284@RYERSON.BITNET writes:
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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?
>>
>>                       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

The advantage may be this:  the BLIT was a 68K-based bitmap tube built
for Bell Labs internal use.  The Teletype 5620, the commercially
available unit, is NOT a 68K-based system (WE32000?).  So the BLIT
support software may be seen as having so little commercial value that
AT&T may well license it for some reasonable fee.  Anyone at Guilford
Center listening? (please?)

					Robert Halloran, Consultant
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