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From: watmath!mwang_pay
Date: Sat Jun 12 06:21:03 1982
Subject: UW CS Collo., Dr. Pike on "The Blit: Merging Bitmap Graphics & Unix"
Posted: Fri Jun 11 10:08:28 1982
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
COLLOQUIUM ACTIVITIES
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM - Wednesday, June 16, 1982.
Dr. Rob Pike of Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, will
speak on "The Blit: Merging Bitmap Graphics and
Unix".
TIME: 3:30 PM
ROOM: M&C 5158
ABSTRACT
The Blit terminal developed at Bell Labs by Bart Lo-
canthi and Rob Pike aims at the middle ground between
time-sharing and personal computing, providing the
advantages of high-speed interactive graphics against
the familiar backdrop of the Unix time-sharing sys-
tem. The terminal has very inexpensive hardware,
cheap and simple enough to take home, but designed
with software in mind by the people who planned to
write the software and use the terminal. The result
is a working environment which augments Unix rather
than compete with it. Two general improvements in-
troduced to Unix by the Blit world are:
+ interactive graphics for (potentially) any user
+ a multiprogramming terminal to assist the mul-
tiprogramming operating systems.
This talk will focus on issues of software design
(particularly the division of labor between hardware
and software, terminal and operating system) and user
interface, and will be peppered with examples of
Blits in action.
Coffee and refreshments will be served at 3:00 PM.
June 11, 1982
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From: utzoo!henry
Date: Tue Jun 15 18:45:15 1982
Subject: Rob Pike cancels
Posted: Tue Jun 15 18:45:15 1982
Received: Tue Jun 15 18:45:15 1982
Rob Pike's scheduled seminar at Waterloo, and his scheduled appearance
at HCR on Thursday, have been cancelled, according to Mike Tilson of
HCR. Rob has come down sick with food poisoning.
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From: watmath!mwang_pay
Date: Mon Nov 15 23:15:45 1982
Subject: UW CS Colloq., Mr. Pike on "The Blit: Merging Bitmap Graphics and Unix"
Posted: Mon Nov 15 14:27:29 1982
Received: Mon Nov 15 23:15:45 1982
Expires: Thu Nov 25 00:00:00 1982
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
COLLOQUIUM ACTIVITIES
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM - Wednesday, November 24, 1982.
Mr. Rob Pike of Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, will
speak on "The Blit: Merging Bitmap Graphics and
Unix".
TIME: 3:30 PM
ROOM: M&C 5158
ABSTRACT
The Blit terminal developed at Bell Labs by Bart Lo-
canthi and Rob Pike aims at the middle ground between
time-sharing and personal computing, providing the
advantages of high-speed interactive graphics against
the familiar backdrop of the Unix time-sharing sys-
tem. The terminal has very inexpensive hardware,
cheap and simple enough to take home, but designed
with software in mind by the people who planned to
write the software and use the terminal. The result
is a working environment which augments Unix rather
than compete with it. Two general improvements in-
troduced to Unix by the Blit world are:
+ interactive graphics for (potentially) any user
+ a multiprogramming terminal to assist the mul-
tiprogramming operating systems.
This talk will focus on issues of software design
(particularly the division of labor between hardware
and software, terminal and operating system) and user
interface, and will be peppered with examples of
Blits in action.
Coffee and refreshments will be served at 3:00 PM.
November 15, 1982