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Article #23391Re: Playstation 2 has as much FPU power as Merced?
From: shaolin1234
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 00:00
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In article <7blp77$8en$1@flex.london.pipex.net>, "Russ Williams" <russ@algorithm.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Speaking of which: I saw an article a couple of days ago saying that > dual-PIII systems were going to fall foul of some supercomputer > export laws in the US, so a single PSX2 might well be in the same > situation... Since when was PS2 going to be US-made? Or does Japan has similar export laws as US? > >Remember when videogame systems used 10 year old > >hand-me-down CPUs? > > Yup. I wonder how long it'll be before someone gets a PSX2, USB > keyboard/mouse and a FireWire hard disk and calls it a high-end > graphics workstation... Come on, that was already claimed about Nintendo64. 'A high end SGI graphics workstation on your desk for $200!'. N64 didn't live up to that hype, and frankly I don't think PS2 will either, even though it will probably be very impressive. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102b75,e8b7abf312c36c04 X-Google-Attributes: gid102b75,public X-Google-Thread: 105ad2,e8b7abf312c36c04 X-Google-Attributes: gid105ad2,public X-Google-Thread: 110292,e8b7abf312c36c04 X-Google-Attributes: gid110292,public X-Google-Thread: 1024aa,e8b7abf312c36c04 X-Google-Attributes: gid1024aa,public From: shaolin1234@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Playstation 2 has as much FPU power as Merced? Date: 1999/03/09 Message-ID: <7c30fs$3pb$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Deja-AN: 452927087 References: <7bjr4a$cq2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7blijb$u02$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7blp77$8en$1@flex.london.pipex.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x15.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 192.100.124.27 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Mar 09 11:25:54 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.arch,intel.etc,comp.games.development.industry,comp.sys.intel X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/3.03Gold (WinNT; I)