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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
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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
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