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Article #3127Re: Ideal processor for PS
From: Larry Spence
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 1990 05:04
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 1990 05:04
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In article <1990Sep17.200919.20370@idacom.uucp> rob@idacom.uucp (Rob Chapman) writes:
>
> Hi, is there anybody at Adobe (or elsewhere) interested in a 32 bit processor
> which has two on board stacks, support for IEEE floating point, on chip DMA,
> 20 ns execution time for most instructions (8 bit opcodes), plugs directly
> into DRAM, and only costs $20? To me it sounds perfect for running PostScript
> on a printer or whatever.
I'm interested, but only if the following "instructions" execute in 20 ns each:
stroke
fill, eofill
clip, eoclip
showpage
%) %) %)
Seriously, there are people out there implementing PS in RISC microcode and
on chips that have instructions like "rasterize this trapezoid."
--
Larry Spence
larry@csccat
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!csccat!larry From: larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Ideal processor for PS Message-ID: <3905@csccat.UUCP> Date: 19 Sep 90 05:04:53 GMT References: <1990Sep17.200919.20370@idacom.uucp> Reply-To: larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence) Organization: Computer Support Corporation. Dallas,Texas Lines: 24