CompuServe Messages

Blitter and the Floppy

    27-Nov-94 05:51:05
Fm: Jim Drew/UUI 72662,14
To: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
The blitter is used by the OS (only for 68020 and lower processors) to encode and decode the MFM data that is DMA'd via PAULA. I guess I missed the front of the thread. 🙂 On 68030+ systems, the processor is used to encode/decode the data because the blitter is much slower.