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
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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.........


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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                               {backbone}!gryphon!richard