From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 16:10:59 +0000
Subject: [TUHS] Harvard and Von Neumann Architectures and Unix
In-Reply-To: <20171125142424.3518A18C0D9@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (Noel Chiappa's
 message of "Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:24:24 -0500 (EST)")
References: <20171125142424.3518A18C0D9@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <7windy9w4s.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>

Noel Chiappa wrote;
> Doug McIlroy wrote:
> > Optimal code for bitblt (raster block transfers) in the Blit
> Interesting case. I'm not familiar with BitBLT codes, do they actually
> modify the existing program, or rather do they build small custom
> ones?

They could modify existing programs using a blitter. :-)

This has actually been done, but for generating software synthesizer
code.  The blitter would be used to update the mixing code every time
the output frequency of a sound channel changed.