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From: James Rutherford <j.t.rutherford@sms.ed.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Texture Mapping and the phantom playstation II [Was: Re: GPU Packets...]
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:39:14 +0000
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Toby Hutton wrote:

> Personally I'd rather see the next generation PSX have *no* hardware
> backward compatability...

I wholeheartedly agree. Backward compatibility introduces the slight
danger of holding the rest of the hardware back (or making it more
expensive).

> Hopefully the new PSX will be sh*t hot enough to emulate the current
> PSX in software.

Yeah, a PSX bootup disk for PSX2 is a neat idea. And knowing how much of
a leap most new hardware is from its predecessor - this shouldn't be too
hard to do. It makes perfect commercial sense all round.

Roll on Yaroze2! :)

James (~mrfrosty / SCEE).