rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) (09/15/88)
A floating point chip manufacturer (Weitek?) recently introducted a hardware accelerators for PostScript processors. PostScript interpreters do most of their computations in floating point or fixed point which slows down CPUs considerably. On the other hand, Adobe has shown realtime screen PostScript (Display PostScript) at various conventions, done solely with conventional FPUs (screens have only 12% the pixels as paper). Display PostScript on the NeXT is even faster, but I don't know if there is hardware assist.