[net.rumor] BLIT????

berry (03/10/83)

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zinfandel!berry    Mar  9 09:30:00 1983

Whatever happened to the rumor that Teletype Corp. was going to make BLIT's??
Whatever happened to the BLIT anyway?  Will mortals ever be able to get their
hands on them??

Berry Kercheval		Zehntel Inc.	(decvax!sytek!zehntel!zinfandel!berry)
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franka (03/10/83)

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tekcad!franka    Mar 10 09:17:00 1983

What the hell is a BLIT?
		Wishing people would explain their FLA's
			(Four Letter Acronyms),
			Frank Adrian

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sch (03/11/83)

A BLIT is a Bell Labs Bit map Terminal, I forget what the acronym was,
someone in Bell must know.  An interesting talk and video tape on it was
shown at the Summer 82 Unix conference in Boston.  He showed multiple
windows (with Asteroids, an edit and a make) all alive at the same time.
Most window terminals only have one live window or cycle through all
windows in a polling fashion.  It also had a mouse (useful for editing
and asteroids).  The system comes with System V and multiple window
support (or so I have heard).

		Rumor generator,
		S. Hemminger

CAD:kalash (03/12/83)

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ucbcad!kalash    Mar 11 14:46:00 1983

	BLIT comes from BIT-BLIT. The BLIT is a very fancy 68k based
graphics terminal from Bell Labs which is VERY cheap ( I don't remember
exactly, but < 5k). 

			Joe Kalash

crs (03/15/83)

I couldn't agree more with Frank Adrian's recent comment.  We don't *all*
know the meaning of *every* conceivable acronym.

Charlie Sorsby