Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!uudell!bigtex!natinst!rpp386!woody From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: *COMPLETE* Postscript Description Summary: computer in car Message-ID: <17490@rpp386.cactus.org> Date: 24 Dec 89 17:46:22 GMT References: <28@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <619@cherry5.UUCP> Distribution: comp Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano, TX Lines: 24 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 w