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From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>, Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Blit source
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:32:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a2542f0-e0d4-9acd-71eb-dc413e157b06@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgznw+fzOdZTJwVv3Vb0a3MnEBoJfjtWz2fayPjrg3UKYg@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/19/19 1:54 AM, Rob Pike wrote:

> Two bits per pixel. The "render extension" in X Windows originated there, 
> after an epiphany I had while watching Hoop Dreams. True story.

That's a great movie. I would be very interested in hearing the story of
how it sparked that epiphany.

(And if you liked Hoop Dreams, you might be interested in "Benji", an ESPN
30 for 30 documentary about another Chicago high school basketball player
but from a very different angle. Unless, of course, you've already seen
it.)

Chet

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-19 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-19  0:16 Norman Wilson
2019-12-19  0:26 ` Rob Pike
2019-12-19  3:47   ` Mike Haertel
2019-12-19  6:49     ` Angelo Papenhoff
2019-12-19  5:12   ` Dan Cross
2019-12-19  6:54     ` Rob Pike
2019-12-19  8:03       ` arnold
2019-12-19 15:32       ` Chet Ramey [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-01-06 21:01 Norman Wilson
2019-12-19  9:09 Paul Ruizendaal
2019-12-15 20:45 Paul Ruizendaal
2019-12-15 21:17 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2019-12-16  6:25 ` emanuel stiebler
2019-12-16 11:06   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2019-12-17  6:04     ` emanuel stiebler
2019-12-18  3:53   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2019-12-18  4:30     ` Rob Pike
2019-12-18 10:43     ` Julius Schmidt
2019-12-18 12:11       ` Angelo Papenhoff
2019-12-18 15:53         ` Dan Cross
2019-12-18 12:19       ` Paul Ruizendaal
2019-12-19  0:20   ` Paul Ruizendaal

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