Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!enea!diab!pf From: pf@diab.se (Per Fogelstr|m) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Sw vs. Hw BitBlit (CharBLT) Message-ID: <418@ma.diab.se> Date: 13 Aug 88 10:33:58 GMT References: <399@ma.diab.se> <76700044@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1843@gofast.camcon.co.uk> Reply-To: pf@ma.UUCP (Per Fogelstr|m) Organization: Diab Data AB, Taby, Sweden Lines: 10 In article <1843@gofast.camcon.co.uk> anc@camcon.co.uk (Adrian Cockcroft) writes: > >In general the 82786 is probably faster then the 34010 but is less >programmable. >-- And the NS DP8500 is much faster than the 82786 and at least as programmable as the Ti 34010. And the DP8500 can have glyphs up to 256x256 and can do kerning as well. I did a CRT emulator by only adding a UART to the chip, easy as 1 2 3 . Look mom' no "CPU".