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To: Alan Hume who wrote (19712)	5/7/1999 2:44:00 PM
From: jopawa	Respond to of 93625

14:20 JURORS IN STEELE TRIAL SAY THEY ARE 'HOPELESSLY DEADLOCKED'-AP Didn't know he was on trial, thought he was busy buying RMBS shares.<gg> John/joking of course!

To: Alan Hume who wrote (19712)	5/7/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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

To: Alan Hume who wrote (19712)	5/7/1999 5:07:00 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to 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