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To: Alan Hume who wrote (100806)3/13/2000 4:18:00 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
Alan,

RE: "I think that they realise that the bastion of WINTEL market domination position is being seriously threatened."

Man, how many times have I heard that. I suppose it could be true this time.

My argument with Microsoft competing with Sony is that they are talking about an entrenched consumer electronics product, which is Sony's "space". I would be equally skeptical if Sony were planning on entering the business software market.

As far as the relative technical quality/functions of the products, I'm not the one to venture an opinion. I haven't played a video game since Pac Man.



To: Alan Hume who wrote (100806)3/13/2000 4:53:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Respond to of 186894
 
Alan,

How can a PIII based machine hope to compare in performance to a parallel pair of 64 bit machines?

The fundamental mathematical operation required for high performance graphics is a 4x4 32 bit multiply/accumulate. This is available using the SIMD extensions on x86 processors.

In addition, X-box will use a high performance graphics engine, with lots of wide computational power of it's own. I believe that X-box will be higher performance than PS2.

Scumbria


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