47 points | by todsacerdoti 19 hours ago ago
8 comments
Interview with Dan Ingalls here where he talks about inventing BitBlt
www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738237/
First time I heard of BitBLT was the Win-11-breaking-ColorForth discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953001
Happy BitBLT Day to all who celebrate https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/11/happy-bitblt-day-to-all-who...
He refers to byte magazine's article on bitblt: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/page/n185/...
Also XScreensaver's Blitspin hack: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/page/n201/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTtcwb-UWW8
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oh, uh, can jump from mastodon then where I copied the link from, sorry https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115578171906975865
What does this guy have against HN?
Worked for too many VCs.
Interview with Dan Ingalls here where he talks about inventing BitBlt
www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738237/
First time I heard of BitBLT was the Win-11-breaking-ColorForth discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953001
Happy BitBLT Day to all who celebrate https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/11/happy-bitblt-day-to-all-who...
He refers to byte magazine's article on bitblt: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/page/n185/...
Also XScreensaver's Blitspin hack: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/page/n201/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTtcwb-UWW8
Reminder to right-click, click "Get Clean Link", then open a new tab and paste to avoid jwz's anti-HN referral tracker.
oh, uh, can jump from mastodon then where I copied the link from, sorry https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115578171906975865
What does this guy have against HN?
Worked for too many VCs.