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• eincarnation, cycle of n. See cycle of reincarnation.
• eincarnation, cycle of: n. See {cycle of reincarnation}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• 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....
• blitter: /blit'r/ n. A special-purpose chip or hardware system built to perform {blit} operations, esp.
  used for fast implementation of bit-mapped graphics....
• wheel of reincarnation [coined in a paper by T.
  H. Myer and I.E. Sutherland "On the Design of Display Processors", Comm....
• 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....
• Reincarnation is a pleasant surprise.
• Reincarnation is making a comeback!
• bit bang n. Transmission of data on a serial line, when accomplished by rapidly tweaking a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times.
  The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte....