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From: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Blit source
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 21:45:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D27BDF93-38A2-4C82-ADAB-4847F95D67A0@planet.nl> (raw)

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I’m looking for source code of the original Blit as described here:
http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/blit/blit.pdf <http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/blit/blit.pdf>

It does not seem to be on the v8 tape. I found the following on the web:
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/att/5620/software/ <http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/att/5620/software/>
but that seems to be from much later and for the 5620.

Then there is this, which seems to be the Blit's graphics routines or a derivtive thereof:
https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/astaff/project/Sdev/S/src/fun/blit/ <https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/astaff/project/Sdev/S/src/fun/blit/>
(although it seems larger than the 8KB mentioned in the paper).

I’m aware of this emulator:
https://github.com/aap/blit <https://github.com/aap/blit>
which uses a rom dump; it appears a good base for h/w documentation.

Did the sources of these rom contents survive?












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             reply	other threads:[~2019-12-15 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-15 20:45 Paul Ruizendaal [this message]
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
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
2019-12-19  9:09 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-01-06 21:01 Norman Wilson

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