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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: to graphics processor or not to gra
Message-ID: <3880@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 16 Apr 89 16:33:09 GMT
References: <28930@apple.Apple.COM> <3300064@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <3300064@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> BITBLT.  It's not just for graphics anymore!

I'll say. The Amiga uses BitBlt to decode MFM, and there's this guy who wrote
a program that uses the blitter on the Amiga to do LIFE generations: runs at
something like 20 generations per second for a 320 by 200 map.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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