Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!ddsw1!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: dedicated vs general-purpose CPUs Summary: forgive me, I couldnt resist Message-ID: <5450@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 10 Aug 88 08:25:25 GMT Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 18 In article <18770@sgi.SGI.COM> maverick@cl2devy.SGI.COM (Steve Whitney) writes: >In article <4438@cbmvax.UUCP>, jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes: >... >> ...or the chip was seen as a stopgap, and is thus often very >> simple, and doesn't help with much. An example is the (still not released, >> I believe) Atari blitter. It was just a rectangle-copy chip, no special ops, >> nothing else... > >Atari has released its blitter. > > --Steve And next year they release another one......... -- Who are these ones that would lead us now ? richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard