Re: blits (was Open Look versus Motif, and it's effect on NeWS vs. X.)

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From: Chet Ramey
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1990 17:54

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Mark Moraes writes about the Blit:

>The programmer's manual qualifies as the smallest window system
>programming manual around -- at 12 pages, it is well under the ~45 page
>MGR manual and the ~60 page X10 manual.  I don't know of it in
>published form anywhere, alas.
>
>%A Rob Pike
>%T The Blit Programmer's Manual (TTY Edition)
>%J Eighth Edition Unix source, /usr/blit/doc/manual
>%P 1-12

It is available, as a tech report from Bell Labs.  I have a copy, and go
back and re-read it occasionally when I get too frustrated with the volumes
of X11 documentation.

Write to:

	Comp. Sci Tech. Reports
	AT&T Bell Laboratories
	Room 2C-579
	600 Mountain Ave.
	Murray Hill, NJ 07974

Ask for CSTR #121.  It's free.

Chet

-- 
Chet Ramey				"Can't you pay a grad student to 
Network Services Group			 read the manual for you?"
Case Western Reserve University			-- Bill Wisner,
chet@ins.CWRU.Edu				   	to Peter Honeyman

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Subject: Re: blits (was Open Look versus Motif, and it's effect on NeWS vs. X.)
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