rob@idacom.uucp (Rob Chapman) (09/18/90)
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. Rob
larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence) (09/19/90)
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 larry@csccat ...{uunet,texsun,cs.utexas.edu,decwrl}!csccat!larry