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Article #8713Re: Compiled PostScript
From: Dwight Kelly
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 18:53
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 18:53
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woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes: >There most definitly are some VERY slow parts of Postscript. Why in the BLEEP >the floatingpoint math is done in software is totaly beyond me. The original >controller should have had an 68881 or something similar. To my knowledge >none of the smaller lasers have a math co-procoessor. That one simple >hardware addition would make a significant impact on through put. My VT600Ps and the CG 400dpi lasers have a Motorola FP chip. Dwight Kelly Network Publications, Inc.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!emory!stiatl!rsiatl!kd4nc!npiatl!dkelly From: dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Compiled PostScript Message-ID: <734@npiatl.UUCP> Date: 4 Jan 90 18:53:48 GMT References: <POLLACK.89Dec4133944@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1666@intercon.com> <1673@intercon.com> <17548@rpp386.cactus.org> Organization: Network Publications, Inc. Atlanta, GA Lines: 12