Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Self-modifying code (and bitblt)
Message-ID: <1988Jul29.192019.27020@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7439@ico.ISC.COM> <4894@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <1988Jul26.022555.28494@utzoo.uucp> <308@laic.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 88 19:20:19 GMT

In article <308@laic.UUCP> darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) writes:
>As I recall, the Blit (or 5620, ATT told me not to call it a blit), had
>very nice speed.  However, it cost quite a lot of money ($8000?) so I wouldn't
>really call it that cost effective ...

The selling price was something like $5k, as I recall, and it *cost* a lot
less than that (as witness the rather lower price of the 630, its replacement,
despite greater functionality with similar technology).
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