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From: Sullivan@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Next Amiga system
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Date: 6 Oct 88 03:10:34 GMT
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>> Maybe not a given. Did you follow the blitter wars in comp.arch? Though a
>> blitter that talks over the video bus and lets you run another task might
>> be a different matter.
>
>Here! Here!  A lot of people (including myself) believe that things like
>bus bandwidth are more useful than blitters.  Blitters seem great in a 2D
>world, but hey we live in a 3D visual world.  Has anyone used a blitter to
>aid in 3D graphics yet?

Do you have a three-dee display?  More than likely, your 3D graphics are 
being reduced to 2D for display.  Since the blitter is a hardware device
designed to assist in manipulating the final images, it still has a part
even in your machine.  (Of course, since it can do several fundamental 
mathematical functions on large arrays of numbers, it has been used for
other purposes.  As soon as HD3DTV comes out I'll trade in my blitter for
my new neutronic-plate-carbon-brain. :-)

                           -Sullivan Segall
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