platter

n 1: a large shallow dish used for serving food

2: a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce

music by rotating as a phonograph needle tracked in the

grooves [syn: {phonograph record}, {phonograph recording},

{record}, {disk}, {disc}]

blitter

/blit'r/ (Or "{raster blaster}"). A

special-purpose {integrated circuit} or hardware system built

to perform {blit} (or "{bit bang}") operations, especially

used for fast implementation of {bit-mapped} graphics.

The {Commodore} {Amiga} and a few other {microcomputers} have

these, but in 1991 the trend is away from them (however, see

{cycle of reincarnation}).

[{Jargon File}]

(1996-04-30)