kdmoen (03/20/83)
the name 'Blit' comes from 'bitblt' (pronounced bit-blit), which is the name of a general purpose operation on rectangular bit-maps. (some of you know it as raster-op) 'bitblt', in turn, is derived from 'blt', which is the mneumonic for the BLock Transfer instruction on the PDP-10. Doug Moen, watmath!kdmoen