Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!chinacat!woody From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: new NeXTs as PostScript engines? Summary: AMD29000 Message-ID: <1606@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Date: 4 Oct 90 00:40:17 GMT References: <1990Sep28.213733.26340@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <859@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Organization: a guest of Unicom Systems Development, Austin Lines: 18 In article , barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes: > > But has anyone seen one of these? Any opinions? > > I haven't seen anything. Just read the blurbs. What they say: > > "Performance can also soar. In a demonstration, the Just watch the printers with the AMD29000 Chip. AT a 16 Mhz clock speed with NO branch table caching i.e. the most crippled chip, runs approx 3 times as fast as the latest 68020 based Apple engine. Just imageing what the 40 mhz rate with full caching is gonna do. This all points up the power of a faster processer, and one optimised for a highlevel compiler language. Cheers Woody