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• 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....
• 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....
• aster blaster: n. [Cambridge] Specialized hardware for {bitblt} operations (a {blitter}).
  Allegedly inspired by `Rasta Blasta', British slang for the sort of portable stereo Americans call a `boom box' or `ghetto blaster'....
• blit: /blit/ vt. 1. To copy a large array of bits from one part of a computer's memory to another pa
  particularly when the memory is being used to determine what is shown on a display screen....
• wheel of reincarnation [coined in a paper by T.
  H. Myer and I.E. Sutherland "On the Design of Display Processors", Comm....
• eincarnation, cycle of: n. See {cycle of reincarnation}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• 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....
• aster blaster n. [Cambridge] Specialized hardware for bitblt operations (a blitter).
  Allegedly inspired by `Rasta Blasta', British slang for the sort of portable stereo Americans call a `boom box' or `ghetto blaster'....
• killer poke: n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see {poke}) into a memory-mapped control registe
  used esp. of various fairly well-known tricks on {bitty box}es without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload and trash analog electronics in the monitor....