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This somewhat reminds me of the Blitter chip, which first came to my attention in the Amiga 1000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitter https://en.wikipedia.or
by Diederich 7y ago
This somewhat reminds me of the Blitter chip, which first came to my attention in the Amiga 1000:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitter
"A blitter is a circuit, sometimes as a coprocessor or a logic block on a microprocessor, dedicated to the rapid movement and modification of data within a computer's memory."
- tempguy9999 7y agoIIRC the blitter was just a normal coprocessor. I'm pretty certain it wasn't embedded in any way in the memory.
- tejtm 7y agoAs I recall there was "chip" ram and "fast" ram. So maybe not embedded for all definitions but certainly processing chips with privileged access to a subset of memory