[OT] GEM, Blitter, and Atari ST (was: RE: Debian and SqueakL revisited again)
Stephen Pair
spair at advantive.com
Thu Nov 1 14:14:41 UTC 2001
Chris Reuter wrote:
> GEM was released under the GPL when Caldera
> bought Digital Research. The Watcom C compiler is due to be
> released as open-source software as well, although the
> current maintainers are still trying to remove
> third-party-licensed code.
Now that's a blast from the past. The Atari ST (running GEM) was the
computer on which I learned GUIs and event driven C programming (with
the Mark Williams C compiler) when I was a kid. I recently got an Atari
ST emulator running on my laptop and noticed something curious...there
was a menu option on the desktop called "Blitter" which IIRC sped up the
graphics display. I wonder if anyone here knows if this has any
relationship to BitBlt?
- Stephen
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