Re: Sprites(was Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!)

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From: Jim Williams
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 18:21

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ewill@hpewill.sje.mentorg.com (Eric Williams @ PCB x5577) wrote:
>
>However, since modern CPUs have outstripped the blitter
>in processing speed, there is no reason why bobs could
>not be implemented purely in software.  Sprites, however,
>will still require support from the graphics display
>subsystem.  Bobs may also take advantage of the graphics
>display subsystem to eliminate "flicker" as well by
>timing their drawing just right.
>

As a side comment here, since I've been watching this conversation
without comment up to now.  The notion of Sprites originated with
the Logo language -- pre home computer, not hardware. (Logo is a dialect
of Lisp originally written on a PDP-11.  It doesn't look much like it's
parent.)

The conversation seems to have been about some particular notion of
a Sprite and if that type requires hardware...  On this I would not
know.

If, on the other hand you are talking about the more general notion of a 
Sprite then the claim that special hardware is required is wrong.

-- 
Jim Williams.

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Subject: Re: Sprites(was Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!)
Date: 1 Aug 1995 18:21:23 GMT
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