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BitBlt was also used as the drawing primitive for an early graphics terminal developed at Bell Labs, the appropriately named "Blit" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
by johndoe0815 6y ago
BitBlt was also used as the drawing primitive for an early graphics terminal developed at Bell Labs, the appropriately named "Blit" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blit_(computer_terminal) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blit_(computer_terminal). Hardware implementations of BitBlt were available in the Amiga and Atari ST blitter chips (that's how I learned about BitBlt in the late '80s).
Btw., there's a nice paper on BitBlt by Rob Pike: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~rsc/pike84bitblt.pdf https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~rsc/pike84bitblt.pdf