Extremely CISC instructions

ben bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Wed Aug 25 13:07:04 CDT 2021


On 2021-08-25 11:08 a.m., Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote:

> (The Three Rivers PERQ included a similar "RASTEROP" instruction in its
> repertoire, which was similar to BITBLT but also allowed for various
> logical operations to be applied to the source and destination.)

All rendered useless if you move to gray or color. Sadly almost
all monitors are landscape rather than portrait, so we may never see
a good emulation of them.

> - Josh
> 



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