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Re: *COMPLETE* Postscript Description

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From: Woodrow Baker
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1989 17:46
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My car is to old to have a computer in it.  I won't drive anything newer
than about 1977.  Too complex.  If something goes wrong, there are to many
gadgets, computers, etc.  Give me an old 1950-1974 tecnology car, and I can
fix anything that is  that is wrong.....

Why not let your PS printer do the complex stuff.  It should be quite
capable of it.  I see no reason why you could not do simple raytracing with
it, and image the results.  I also see no reason not to use it as a
dedicated floating point computer.  Any one with a good algorythm for PI
written in PS?

I'm sure that Adobe didnot decide to create a general purpose computer
but that is really what they wound up doing.  Sure, they missed ATAN and
some of the other nice stuff, but there isn't any class of program that can
be solved on a general purpose computer, that can't be done in PS.

Actually, a Compiled version of PS is not unreasonable.   Given a good
BNF of the language, YACC and LEX should make the parser a snap.

Cheers

Woody
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From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
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Subject: Re: *COMPLETE* Postscript Description
Summary: computer in car
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Date: 24 Dec 89 17:46:22 GMT
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