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On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Bryan Venable wrote:
> The chip is real; it's used in the PlayStation 2. Looks like someone
> may have managed to hack together a Linux system that runs well enough
> on it to compile PoVray with optimizations and execute it. If so, it
> would probably be capable of producing the listed results, although it
> might not be as effective for general-purpose use even assuming
> someone were to build a full distribution for it.
>
> http://cnnfn.com/hotstories/deals/9903/05/playstation/
> http://www.playcenter.com/psxreviews/psx2/psx2pr2.htm
Yikes! Those are amazing specs. I hope we'll have machines running that
CPU in the near future. Our statistical simulations would be improved
massively. I hope you'll let us know if there are any more breakthroughs
in this area.
Thanks much!
Mike
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Michael B. Miller
University of Missouri--Columbia
http://taxa.psyc.missouri.edu/~mbmiller/
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