Path: utzoo!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-di!leibniz!hwt From: hwt@leibniz.UUCP (Henry Troup) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Sw vs. Hw BitBlit. Summary: Lots of characters on graphics machine - Apple thinks so too. Message-ID: <118@leibniz.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 88 00:31:05 GMT References: <399@ma.diab.se> <1313@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <61783@sun.uucp> <1988Aug3.153415.9033@utzoo.uucp> Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, CANADA Lines: 12 The estimable Mr. Spencer (got to keep all the Henry's straight) queries if anyone has numbers for how much character i/o happens as against graphics on a graphics (bitmap) terminal. I don't know, but I do remember that character writing speed was a big thing for MacIntosh QuickDraw (9k characters per second). It's in the Byte interview in 1984. a hw (percent) leibniz@bnr-di t