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

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From: Nathan Mates
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 00:00

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In article <36df551a.105140012@news>,
Geoff Howland <ghowland@lupineNO.SPAMgames.com> wrote:
>As other people have said, this may be the next low-priced graphics
>workstation.  In fact, if it could be, it would be the next low priced
>graphics workstation priced even at $1500 for the console since it
>seems to do its thing better than PCs could  currently.

   For $400, I'll pay for the PSX2 to be my next *VIDEO* board for my
PC. :) 

   Strip out the DVD interface, just put the CPU and graphics
subsystems on a card with 32+MB RAM and a VGA port, and it'll be a
VERY nice system addon.

Nathan Mates
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From: nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)
Subject: Re: Playstation 2 has as much FPU power as Merced?
Date: 1999/03/05
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