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Article #23405Re: Playstation 2 has as much FPU power as Merced?
From: John McCallum
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 00:00
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In comp.arch 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... Perhaps the American taxpayers will send inspectors around the world to read the serial numbers off of the PSX2 boxes. A few years ago, I had two men from the US Dept of Commerce Bureau of Export Administration from Washington DC come to read the serial number of our 1 cpu 182MHz 21064 Digital 7000 system. They first read our own serial number and declared that it was not the correct serial number - until we led them to the actual Digital serial number. The official definition of a supercomputer isn't always very useful - unless you are a civil servant wanting to see the world. -- John McCallum School of Computing, Department of Computer Science johnm@comp.nus.edu.sg National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260 //www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~johnm tel: 874-2990 NUS, DISCS S15 #03-13
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From: John McCallum <johnm@comp.nus.edu.sg>
Subject: Re: Playstation 2 has as much FPU power as Merced?
Date: 1999/03/05
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