OT: RE: [rescue] XBOX vs PS2

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Tue Jan 22 23:01:28 CST 2002


On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:47:04PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 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-)

I was talking about the R5k.  

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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