1. A display management system for at least one plasma gas panel display, said at least one plasma gas panel display having a complex interface requiring the computation of the boundaries of write and erase operations based on commands from an application program and the geometry of said at least one plasma gas panel, said display management system comprising: host processor means for supplying application program operations, system microprocessor means connected to said host processor means for receiving and storing application program operations downloaded from said host processor means, said system microprocessor means further carrying out decoding and execution of commands in said application program operations downloaded from said host processor means including management of display data, and at least one plasma display adapter means for providing high level control of said interface to said gas panel display, for serialization of character data, and for computing aaid boundaries of said gas panel write and erase operations, wherein said at least one plasma display adapter means includes picoprocessor means for computing said boundaries of said plasma gas panel write and erase operations.