National Semiconductor Corp has announced a C compiler for its DP8500 rastor graphics processor, and now also offers a graphics kernal, a full implementation of a real-time, multi-tasking device independent graphics interface: the announcements, made at Atlanta’s Siggraph show, was accompanied by price-cuts in the graphics chipset, bringing an eight-plane colour graphics system down to […]
National Semiconductor Corp has announced a C compiler for its DP8500 rastor graphics processor, and now also offers a graphics kernal, a full implementation of a real-time, multi-tasking device independent graphics interface: the announcements, made at Atlanta’s Siggraph show, was accompanied by price-cuts in the graphics chipset, bringing an eight-plane colour graphics system down to $98 when you by at a rate of 10,000 a year.