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

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From: Russ Williams
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 00:00

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John Chasey <john@ioproductions.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...
>
>The PSX2 will be manufactured in the Far East, and Sony are
>a Japanese company, so at what point is anything exported
>from the US?

IIRC the PSX1 is made all over the place. SCEA's territory
includes Mexico and Canada, so if some are made in the
US, they'll need exporting. (OTOH, they might be made in
Brazil or Mexico...).

Sony probably wouldn't have an problems getting an export
license, though, in any case...

---
Russ

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From: "Russ Williams" <russ@algorithm.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Playstation 2 has as much FPU power as Merced?
Date: 1999/03/04
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