From: emu@ecubics.com (emanuel stiebler)
Subject: Blit, was: Re: [TUHS] re: Can someone advise me regarding a gui for UNIX
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:01:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DB44F07.68667FE4@ecubics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90d5aca0a564f1de023fd38f32cd5dab@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Is there still enough information available (schematics, manuals, ...)
so an emulator could be written for it ?
cheers
Dennis Ritchie wrote:
>
> Norman Wilson recalled
>
> > 22. Pike, R. "The Blit: A Multiplexed Graphics Terminal". _AT&T Bell
> > Laboratories Technical Journal 63_, 8 (Oct. 1984).
>
> > Rob described an earlier version of the Blit work in a USENIX talk
> > at USENIX in January 1982 (Santa Monica CA). So far as I know it
> > was just a talk, no paper, though he showed a canned demo on video
> > tape.
>
> By coincidence, one of the two videos made about early Blit
> work is newly available in .mpg format: look near the
> bottom of Rob Pike's page under Movies:
>
> http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/rob/index.html
>
> This was just now done by Gerard Holzmann.
>
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2002-10-21 4:19 Dennis Ritchie
2002-10-21 19:01 ` emanuel stiebler [this message]
2002-10-21 19:35 ` Mike Haertel
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