Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: ideas on onboard processors Message-ID:Date: 22 Sep 88 15:18:17 GMT References: <3068@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 10 Of course one thing that off printer processing does is allow you to do computation without tying up the engine. A majority of our runs are text, listings, copies of net news articles (:-). When a big postscript graphics job comes in the engine sits idle while the CPU intensive stuff ties up the 68000. Kind of limits throughput. However, a smart printer ought to be albe to do this on board as well with some sort of mutitasking or multiprocessing as well. -Ron