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From: peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Self-modifying code
Message-ID: <1209@ficc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 88 15:29:59 GMT
References: <5254@june.cs.washington.edu> <76700032@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <3084@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
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In article <3084@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>, wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp) writes:
> In article <1189@ficc.UUCP>, peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> > The Blitter can be used to pump LIFE along at a bit over 20 generations
> > per second. The 68000 can't hope to catch up. How's the 68030?

> Okay, so how does blitter help if the cell array is the frame buffer.  I
> mean it seems kind of a waste to work in an array and then to move it 
> out to the frame buffer.  

It took me a while to parse that sentence, because of course the cell
array is the frame buffer. Then I realised that you were missing one
important point...

The Blitter is doing the work. I don't have the article here, but the
Blitter can actually do all the work of creating the next generation.
I think it takes 11 blits.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Ferranti International Controls Corporation, sugar!ficc!peter.
"You made a TIME MACHINE out of a VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE?"
"Well, I couldn't afford another deLorean."
"But how do you ever get it up to 88 miles per hour????"