Adobe Ports Adobe PostScript to Motorola PowerPC 603e Microprocessor; Motorola and Adobe Deliver New Levels of Printing Performance to Power PC Users.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 1995--Adobe Systems Inc. and Motorola's High Performance Embedded Systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. Division (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MOT) today announced that Adobe PostScript software has been ported to Motorola's PowerPC 603e processor running Adobe's standard printer operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . The embedded form of PostScript software will leverage the capabilities of Motorola's PowerPC 603e microprocessor to offer customers and OEMs one of the highest performance embedded printing solutions available on the market today. Adobe PostScript is an industry standard page description language A high-level language for commanding a printer to print text and graphics on a page. The two major languages are Adobe's PostScript and HP's PCL, which are device independent and supported by most every printer. for electronic printing and publishing. Transparent to the user, PostScript is one of the key technologies that sparked the evolution of the desktop publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes, industry. A printer based on Adobe PostScript software is platform independent and delivers to users high quality, consistent, WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Pronounced "wiz-ee-wig." It refers to displaying text and graphics on screen the same as they will print on paper or display on a Web page. output. "Adobe and Motorola have a long history of cooperation starting from the early days with the 68020 processor, and we have extended that to Motorola's highest performance processors, the PowerPC line," said Fred Schwedner, vice president of the printing and systems group at Adobe. "The PowerPC provides the fastest PostScript language execution that we have seen in our reference systems, providing an attractive choice for our customers with high-end graphics and image-based application printing needs." PowerPC microprocessors are based on a reduced instruction set computing Noun 1. reduced instruction set computing - (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform reduced instruction set computer, RISC (RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. ) architecture, and incorporate leading-edge technologies and processes. The 603e microprocessor is one processor in the PowerPC family which offers advanced performance at competitive pricing. Multiple versions of the PowerPC Architecture enable migrations to even higher levels of performance. The PowerPC 603e at 100MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. achieves 137 Dhrystone MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. . The PostScript software/PowerPC 603e port offers a significantly higher level of printing performance. Starting from a PowerPC 603e with embedded Adobe PostScript software, customers can easily migrate to higher or lower performance levels within the existing PowerPC 6xx Family of microprocessors. Those customers requiring lower system costs have the opportunity to migrate to cost effective integrated PowerPC processors General-purpose PowerPC processors IBM/Motorola
"We recognize PostScript as an industry standard, desktop publishing page description language that will provide our mutual customers with the highest printer output quality, performance and compatibility available on the market today," said Tom Gunter, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola's High Performance Embedded Systems Division. "The port to PowerPC is significant because our customers are now able to easily migrate to higher performance levels than ever before, while enjoying the benefits of Adobe's PostScript technology." Adobe plans to make a reference port of PostSript software available to its OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers in early 1996. Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Inc., founded in 1982, is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. Adobe develops, markets and supports computer software products and technologies that enable users to create, display, print and communicate electronic documents. The company licenses its technology to major computer, printing and publishing suppliers, and markets a line of applications software and type products for authoring visually rich documents. Additionally, the company markets a line of powerful but easy-to-use, products for home and small business users. Adobe has subsidiaries in Europe and the Pacific Rim serving a worldwide network of dealers and distributors. Adobe's 1994 revenue was approximately $598 million. Having 1994 worldwide sales of $6.9 billion, Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector is the largest U.S.-based broad line supplier of semiconductor solutions. Motorola is one of the world's leading providers of wireless communication, semiconductors and advanced electronic systems and services. Major equipment businesses include cellular telephone, two-way radio, paging and data communications, personal communications, automotive, defense and space electronics and computers. Communication devices, computers and millions of consumer products are powered by Motorola semiconductors. Motorola's 1994 sales were $22.2 billion. -0- Note to Editors: PowerPC, PowerPC Architecture, and PowerPC 603 are trademarks of International Business Machines and used by Motorola under license from International Business Machines Corp. Adobe and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Inc.. All other brand or product names are trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Adobe System Inc. Jennifer Polanski, 415/962-2197 http://www.adobe.com or Cunningham Communication Inc. Christy Weiner, 617/494-8202 christine@cclpr.com |
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