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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 08:29:25 +0000
From: Steve Simon <steve@savan.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: [9fans] Blit jerq etc - postscript
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Tom Duff wrote:

[snip...]
> Some time in early 1981, Rob came to
> visit, saw the updated demo, and on
> his return to Bell Labs, stole the
> name to christen the similar beast
> that he and Bart Locanthi (and Dave
> Ditzel?) were working on.
>
> The J theme did run through all the
> jerq software names.  The debugger was
> called joff (the Jerq Obscure Feature
> Finder), the editor was jim, the
> bitmap editor was jraw (or was that
> the schematic capture program?)
>

I always wondered where it all came from...

Just in case someone is interested more, the BLIT
software has been released at
http://www.bell-labs.com/user/dwd/5620faq.html

I found this a very usefull lesson in how to implement
graphics and particularly the blitblit() function which
I needed for an embedded graphics system recently.

-Steve