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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<cbm80@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
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>The Playstation CPU, on the other hand, has 10 FMAC units
>(probably all but 1 single precision) and 4 FDIV units. What a
>BEAST! And two RDRAM channels, so it will almost certainly
>have greater memory bandwidth than Merced too.
>
>Imagine networking a bunch of these puppies via the Firewire
>interface Poor man's supercomputer!

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...

>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...

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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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