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• blitter /blit'r/ n. [common] A special-purpose chip or hardware system built to perform blit operations, esp.
  used for fast implementation of bit-mapped graphics....
• cycle of reincarnation: [coined by Ivan Sutherland ca.
  1970] n. Term used to refer to a well-known effect whereby function in a computing system family is migrated out to special-purpose peripheral hardware for speed, then the peripheral evolves toward more computing power as it does its job, then somebody notices that it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical processors in the architecture and folds the function back into the main CPU, at which point the cycle begins again....
• wheel of reincarnation [coined in a paper by T.
  H. Myer and I.E. Sutherland "On the Design of Display Processors", Comm....
• blit: /blit/ vt. 1. To copy a large array of bits from one part of a computer's memory to another pa
  particularly when the memory is being used to determine what is shown on a display screen....
• aster blaster n. [Cambridge] Specialized hardware for bitblt operations (a blitter).
  Allegedly inspired by `Rasta Blasta', British slang for the sort of portable stereo Americans call a `boom box' or `ghetto blaster'....
• aster blaster: n. [Cambridge] Specialized hardware for {bitblt} operations (a {blitter}).
  Allegedly inspired by `Rasta Blasta', British slang for the sort of portable stereo Americans call a `boom box' or `ghetto blaster'....
• What is a bit blit? This is a transfer of pixels (dots) from one location in memory, or on the screen, to another.
  Bit blits are commonly used on bit-map display terminals....
• Amiga n A series of personal computer models originally sold by Commodore
  based on 680x0 processors, custom support chips and an operating system that combined some of the best features of Macintosh and Unix with compatibility with neither....
• languages of choice n. C, C++, LISP, and Perl.
  Nearly every hacker knows one of C or LISP, and most good ones are fluent in both....