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blit - /blit/ 1. To copy a large array of bits from one part of a computer's memory to another part, particularly when the memory is being used to determine what is shown on a display screen. "The storage allocator picks through the table and copies the good parts up into high memory, and then blits it all back down again." See bitblt, BLT, dd, cat, blast, snarf. More generally, to perform some operation (such as toggling) on a large array of bits while moving them.

2. Sometimes all-capitalised as "BLIT": an early experimental bit-mapped terminal designed by Rob Pike at Bell Labs, later commercialised as the AT&T 5620. (The folk etymology from "Bell Labs Intelligent Terminal" is incorrect. Its creators liked to claim that "Blit" stood for the Bacon, Lettuce, and Interactive Tomato).


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Redbox RB-TGHD Multi-channel Tone Generator Also on display is the Redbox RB-TGHD Multi-channel BLITS Tone Generator which is an eight channel audio tone generator that provides line identification for multi-channel audio systems, including BLITS 5.
Redbox RB-TGHD Multi-channel Tone Generator Also on display is the Redbox RB-TGHD Multi-channel BLITS Tone Generator which is an eight channel audio tone generator that provides line identification for multi-channel audio systems, including BLITS 5.
At a Faculty Senate meeting at which Provost Dan Rich echoed Harker, Professors Jan Blits and Linda Gottfredson, who have been the most articulate critics of ResLife among the faculty, stressed that Delaware will continue being the "laughing stock of the nation" until the administration unequivocally disavows ResLife.
 
 
 
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