Re: Blitter, AmigaDOS and Multitasking

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From: Ian Matthew Smith
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 1990 01:17

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If I remember right, the blitter is used in read/write operation on the
Amiga 3.5 floppies.  Disk buffers have to be in CHIP mem so I assume
some of the DOS routines need to use some blitter functions when you have
owned teh blitter.

Ian Smith <ims103@psuvm.bintet>

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Subject: Re: Blitter, AmigaDOS and Multitasking
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