berry (03/10/83)
#N:zinfandel:10700001:000:256 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) (415)932-6900
franka (03/10/83)
#R:zinfandel:10700001:tekcad:1700001:000:232 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 uucp: {ucbvax,decvax,chico,pur-ee,cbosg,ihnss}!teklabs!tekcad!franka CSnet: franka@tek ARPAnet: franka.tek@rand-relay
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)
#R:zinfandel:10700001:ucbcad:17500001:000:170 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