From: utzoo!watmath!kdmoen Newsgroups: net.rumor Title: Etymology of Blit Article-I.D.: watmath.4756 Posted: Sat Mar 19 23:30:29 1983 Received: Sun Mar 20 04:45:02 1983 the name 'Blit' comes from 'bitblt' (pronounced bit-blit), which is the name of a general purpose operation on rectangular bit-maps. (some of you know it as raster-op) 'bitblt', in turn, is derived from 'blt', which is the mneumonic for the BLock Transfer instruction on the PDP-10. Doug Moen, watmath!kdmoen