[HN Gopher] On the Design of Display Processors (1968) [pdf]
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       On the Design of Display Processors (1968) [pdf]
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2022-12-03 13:47 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | jonjacky wrote:
       | This is the paper that introduced 'The Wheel of Reincarnation' to
       | describe how the same ideas keep recurring in computer science.
        
       | spacedcowboy wrote:
       | Reading this reminded me quite a bit of ANTIC[1], the display
       | processor that gave the Atari 8-bit computers much of their
       | appeal, though it deferred the more general computing to the CPU
       | with its display-list interrupts.
       | 
       | [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTIC
        
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