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To: Alan Hume who wrote (19712)5/7/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 93625
 
Off topic! (Technical discussion to follow.)

<The Playstation will use 2 64 bit processors in parallel. Not a 128 bit processor. The PIII is I believe still a 32 bit CPU>

It's really tough to judge the performance of a processor just by the number of "bits" it has. The now-dead Atari Jaguar game system advertised all over the place that it was a 64-bit game engine. Even their slogan was "Do the math." But no way could it keep up with the two 32-bit processors on the Sony Playstation (the current one) or the 64-bit processor of the Nintendo 64.

And in turn, the 64-bit Nintendo 64 isn't nearly as powerful as the "mere 32-bit" Pentium III.

Tenchusatsu
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