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From: "Ian Drake, IT, SE Dunbartonshire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 8:40 AM
Subject: RE: [scottish] Fw: Sony announce official Linux for PS2 [Almost off
topic, but not quite]
> I seem to remember some rumours about the world PSX2 shortage being caused
> be a certain Mr S Husain of Bagdad - something to do with buying them all
up
> A) because they wern't tecnically "super computers" they wern't restricted
> (even though you could class them in the same range as super-computers.)
customs officials in the region class them as 'toys'!!
> B) He wanted to annoy all the American kids.
(a) is more plausible methinks ;)
> The stories went along the lines of hooking 12-16 of them together and
using
> the combind parrallel power to fly a UAV.
that was using playstations (not PS2s). Allegedly, several PS2s have enough
aggregate power to do some serious calculations (look at Sony's GScube,
which is 16 PS2 chipsets running in parallel to produce real-time rendering
of a quality previously unseen).
> Anyone fancy helping to arm a private army in Glasgow?
'MON THE CONSOLES!
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