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To: Alan Hume who wrote (19712)5/7/1999 5:07:00 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (3) of 93625
 
Well, as far as whether the Playstation II is 128 bit or 2 64 bit processors, check out the link I posted (www.playstation.com) then hit news/spec sheet. It clearly states that it uses a 128 bit "Emotion Engine".

As far as whether the Pentium III is 64 bit or 32 bit, you may be correct. I browsed Intel's incredibly slow and laberynthine site and couldn't find anything that confirmed either way.

from playstation site:

CPU:
128 Bit "Emotion EngineÔ"
System Clock Frequency 300 MHz
Cache Memory Instruction: 16KB, Data: 8KB + 16KB (ScrP)
Main Memory Direct Rambus (Direct RDRAM)
Memory Size 32MB
Memory Bus Bandwidth 3.2GB per Second
Co-processor FPU (Floating Point Unit)
Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 1,
Floating Point Divider x 1
Vector Units VU0 and VU1
Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 9,
Floating Point Divider x 3
Floating Point Performance 6.2 GFLOPS
3D CG Geometric Transformation 66 Million Polygons per second
Compressed Image Decoder MPEG2
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