Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Elliott Lee Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Playstation 2 details Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 12:18:18 -0700 Organization: Bwahaha Lines: 44 Message-ID: <360BEC7A.1ABD10CE@shell.jps.net> References: <6uf42g$ja93@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <1dfwn22.a7u8a0bydajoN@a1-88-115.a1.nl> <360B4B18.78B1@mdx.ac.uk> <360B6890.B28C6C76@scee.sony.co.uk> Reply-To: tenchi@shell.jps.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-m-62-237.cisco.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; U) Oh, and if you have two PSX2's can you have each unit render every other scan line like a Voodoo 2? Hey, it could be a great marketing technique to sell twice as many units! - e :P James Russell wrote: > > Robert Swan wrote: > > > > I wonder how the PSX changed in its last months before release? Can > > anyone at SCEE tell us, as it may completely contadict what Ive just > > said :) > > It changed from being the size of a beer fridge to a small grey box, for one. > > OK, here's the scoop on Playstation 2: > > o Runs Linux as the OS. > o Hardware Java bytecode interpreter chip. > o 2 DVD drives for media (one of them DVD-RAM). > o Instead of Memory Cards, miniDiscs. > o HDTV and IMAX support. > o 128 Megs of RAM. > o Dual R10000 MIPS processors with 4MB cache. > o Built in radio modem. > o GPU supports NURBs, Voxels, Hermite curves, and pixels. > o Handheld with 12 hour battery life. > o And it's blue and pink. > > -- > == James_Russell@scee.sony.co.uk +44 (171) 447-1626 > == Developer Support Engineer - Sony Computer Entertainment Europe > > Handwritten on a condom machine; "This gum tastes funny" -- Mata ne, ... ... - e! ::' tenchi@shell.jps.net ':: (Protocol) :: ACiD -/- ACS -/- pHluid -/- Yaroze -/- Nemesis :: (Tenchikun) ::. http://www.jps.net/tenchi .:: ''' '''