Seeing as how the Sega Dreamcast was officially released here in the U.S.
today... and the list has been REALLY quiet (due to school starting?), I
looked at the specs... and sure 'nuff, apparently, the Hitachi SH4 can do 2
FPU ops per cycle (single or double precision) and has the good ole SIMD
architecture that the PIII and 3DNow chips seem to support, with 128-bit
ops, but again, only for 32-bit single precision floating point numbers...
so bummer there... but the superscalar FPU is nice...
Anyway, since the Dreamcast runs WinCE, a port to it would be pretty easy...
the only problem I see is storing intermediate files, since the "memory
packs" are only 128k or something right now... I suppose you could store it
somewhere on the 'net by using its built-in 56k modem or whatever...
Well, back to work...
-Later
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