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In article <9236@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, jafischer@spurge.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer) writes:
> It (the ATW)
> supposedly has this blindingly fast blitter / graphics coprocessor /
> whatever.  Since no such thing was mentioned in the NeXT press release, I'm
> assuming that the graphics load is handled by the '030.  A big lose.

Not necessarily. According to Henry Spencer the 68030 can run a BitBlt in
cache fast enough that there's one useful memory reference every clock cycle.
This is also the maximum speed a DMA device can be expected to support. Thus,
a 68030 cannot be speeded up by a Blitter. See the blitter wars in comp.arch
for more details.
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