Netyaroze on 23 February 2013
| fordy said: What's a new PS event without the usual "would be used for supercomputer-like things" hype? Remember the stuff being spread about PS2 being used to launch missiles by Saddam Hussein? |
Yeah do you remember why this was spread in the first place ?
The USA had an embargo against Irak. And nobody was allowed to sell computerchips that exceeded a certain (today laughable) treshhold of computational power because at a certain level the Chips inside were able to make the necessary calculations to guide a missile in theory, and the PS2 was over that treshhold as first console. Intel and AMD werent allowed to sell their chips either but since PS2 was considered a toy the press made a huge unnecessary deal out of it.
