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Re: Playstation 2 has as much FPU power as Merced?

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From: davenagy
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 00:00
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In article <36df551a.105140012@news>,
  ghowland@lupineNO.SPAMgames.com (Geoff Howland) wrote:

> Then they have cars from Ridge Racer racing in the inside of a city,
> that are definitely curved surfaces and just look incredibly smooth
> and the light is specularly lighting them just AMAZINGLY.

You didn't mention the motion blur... Very, very nice.

> I dont think that a PIII 500 with the top 'o the line consumer
> graphics card could do this at TV resolutions.

There isn't a chance in Hades it could... That comment about it being
comparable to a Celeron-with-a-TNT-card is ludicrous to the point of being
surreal. (Maybe he was talking about a *magic* Celeron. ;)

> Its a significantly cool machine.

It'll be interesting to see if it lives up to its (possibly rigged?) demos. 
It sure looks "for real".  I want one.	Perhaps two...


Dave Nagy&#137;

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Subject: Re: Playstation 2 has as much FPU power as Merced?
Date: 1999/03/07
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