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In article <787@ihlpm.UUCP>, rtb@ihlpm.UUCP (Todd) writes:
> I just read on att.blit that the University of Toronto has developed
> and is currently using a 5620(blit) terminal emulator in a ROM
> cartridge for the 520ST (mono).  Does anyone know if this is true?

Unfortunately AT&T does not sell the BLIT.  They sell the 5620.
The BLIT had a 68000, the 5620 for political reasons has an AT&T custom
processor chip.  (It's probably more expensive for them to build it
than to buy the 68000 from Motorola for $10.)

The ST cartridge in question makes the ST emulate a BLIT.  In fact,
once a few changes have been made to the BLIT sources, it can run
the same binaries that a BLIT runs.  (The changes make things like
the screen size a parameter rather than hardwired in.)  All the BLITs
in the world are inside Bell Labs and a few universities.

I guess this might benefit people inside Bell but it's useless to the
rest of us, unless AT&T releases BLIT (not 5620) software to everybody.
Hmm, AT&T could probably sell the 520ST cartridge and the BLIT source code
as a package deal...
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