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

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From: Aaron Spink
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:00

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aa158@valleynet.on.ca writes:

> 
> Two current news items at EETimes:
> 
> "The Playstation 2's CPU, jointly developed by Toshiba and SCE, is an enhanced
> version of the device described at ISSCC. The device has floating-point
> performance of 6.2 Gflops..."
> http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990302S0026
> 
> 
> "Intel said Merced would achieve 3-Gflops extended-precision floating-point
> performance and 6-Gflops single-precision performance."
> http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990226S0012
> 
> 

And it will probably just about as usefull in either of them.  Quoting
Gflops in a vacum is about the most useless thing that I have ever
heard of.  

Aaron Spink
not speaking for Compaq

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From: Aaron Spink <spink@kraftwerk.pa.dec.com>
Subject: Re: Playstation 2 has as much FPU power as Merced?
Date: 1999/03/03
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