Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Dedicated Processors (was Sw vs. Hw BitBlit (CharBLT))
Message-ID: <1988Aug29.202806.13959@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <399@ma.diab.se> <76700044@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1843@gofast.camcon.co.uk> <418@ma.diab.se> <374@augean.OZ> <1988Aug22.195431.7991@utzoo.uucp> <378@augean.OZ>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 88 20:28:06 GMT

In article <378@augean.OZ> idall@augean.OZ (Ian Dall) writes:
>... I don't know about you but I think it
>would be a nightmare to try and design (and I include the software
>design here) a multi general purpose cpu system with all the
>processors having access to the bit map memory of ten screens! ...

It's been done, actually, although with character displays rather than
bitmaps.  It worked all right, although the company was so incompetent
in other respects that it never caught on.
-- 
Intel CPUs are not defective,  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
they just act that way.        | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu