OT: RE: [rescue] XBOX vs PS2

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:40:03PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> Fine.  People may try to use it for scientific work, but it wasn't designed
> for scientific work, and for it's designed purposes, I believe that 32bit
> floats are fine.  I wouldn't quibble if my desktop machine has a 128bit
> (4 32bit floats) vector unit.

The R3000 wasnt designed for scientific work?  What the hell did SGI sell
them for, then?  To be remade into espressogo machines? 8-)

(hrm, better go tell that to the company that just gave me six of them, after
 using them for TEN FULL YEARS...)

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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