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
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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.

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