maverick@cl2devy.SGI.COM (Steve Whitney) (08/10/88)
As far as I know, the information below is incorrect. It was posted in comp.arch as article 6110. Would someone who soed know please post a response in comp.sys.atari.st and comp.arch, please? > ... An example is the (still not released, ~~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~~~~~ I responded to this > I believe) Atari blitter. It was just a rectangle-copy chip, no special ops, ~~~ note past tense > nothing else. Compare this to the amiga chips, where the blitter was part of > the original design. The blitter has 256 operations (3-source,1 dest), can > also do line-draw and fills, and is only a small part of chip it's on, and > shares hardware with other special purpose functions of the chips, like > dma channel addressing and arbitration. > Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup As I understand it, the Atari blitter does do line drawing and area fills. If this is the case, let's correct the record. --Steve Whitney