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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga doesn`t need Planar!
- Date: 15 Feb 1996 17:28:04 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4fvmuk$4tj@serpens.rhein.de>
- References: <sysop.04k5@sweetdreams.lahn.de>
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- sysop@sweetdreams.lahn.de (Matthias Bethke) writes:
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- >ME> As I said, you need a funnel shifter.
-
- >A stupid (?) question (didn't follow all through this thread): what is a
- >funnel shifter? I know what a barrelshifter is, what's the difference?
-
- About the same. A funnel shifter operates on multiple data words. The
- Amiga blitter for example shifts two words and combines the result
- to produce a destination word.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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