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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Simple sprite question
Message-ID: <41157@sun.uucp>
Date: 5 Feb 88 19:52:55 GMT
References: <880@isrnix.UUCP>
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Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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In article <880@isrnix.UUCP> greg@isrnix.UUCP (Gregory Travis) writes:
> If the system is limited to 8 sprites in any given horizontal
> plane and if the CLI cursor is itself a sprite (which I read
> somewhere) howcome I can open more than 10 cli windows on my
> 1000?

This would appear to be a very good proof by negation setup, spoken more
formally :
	Hypothesis : The cursor is a sprite
		Fact : The hardware will only support 8 sprites on a line
	        Fact : 10 Cli cursors can be lined up on a line
	Conclusion : Since there can be 10 CLI cursors on a line, and the
	   hardware will only support 8 sprites, then we conclude the 
	   hypothesis was wrong. The CLI cursor is *not* a sprite.
	QED.
	(This always appears at the end of proofs for some reason :-),
	 Maybe it is the proof End-of-file mark.)

As you now know, what you 'read somewhere' was incorrect. So if someone
trys to tell you this, ask them to 'prove' it. :-)


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