Daewoo Telecom Co of South Korea, in taking a licence for the University of Washington’s Graphics System Processor 3 – UWGSP3 – is preparing what may be the first colour display system available for Steve Jobs’ NeXT Computer System: Daewoo may ship versions of the 32-bit card and software as early as the end of the year. The system, which combines Texas Instruments’ TMS34020 graphics processor with four TMS34082 floating-point processors, is rated at 160 MFLOPS, and is reckoned to do edge enhancements in less than a second that would take other systems an hour or more to complete. Distributed in the US by Leading Edge Products, it will be pricey at first but is expected to fall to $20,000.
