cb88 said:

I'd like to see this browser happen if it it doesn't support images etc... text only. It would be nice if it could get formatting mostly right though. Forgoing any accelerator support would mean it could run on most all 68k macs.

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Including accelerator support doesn't mean it couldn't run on most all 68k Macs - you can support hardware without requiring it.

Just about any DSP from that period would be woefully incapable versus what you could slap together in even a small modern FPGA... and most likely harder to code for since the toolchains are ancient.

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The difference is that the AV Mac DSPs are something 68k Mac users might actually have. Unless there's already an FPGA-based 68k Mac add-on out there to target (is there? I haven't heard of such a thing,) doing that would require not only overhauling the browser project to take advantage of it, but also designing and manufacturing the requisite hardware (and interfacing it with NuBus or one of the multiple different, mostly-incompatible PDS standards.) That's a lot of effort to go to just for a novelty Web browser.
(That said, I do wonder exactly how useful a DSP would be for the purpose, since they're usually heavily-oriented towards stream processing rather than general-purpose code. I suppose it could help image decoding.)