OT: RE: [rescue] XBOX vs PS2

[Dave McGuire]

On January 22, George Adkins wrote:
> > IMO, for games, and most things in general, 32bit floats are good enough.
> > For scientific work, obviously not as good as 64bit floats, but still,
> > nobody is buying a PS2 for scientific work, and for the most part, people
> > aren't buying R5ks for scientific work either.
>
> heh heh, how about for missile guidance?
> that's why they were export-restricted to Iraq.

  Yeah, I wasn't really going to go there, but there are metric
buttloads of MIPS processors in the defense industry as well...doing
scientific work of sorts...

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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