Deadmeat (deadmeatoa@yahoo.com) on 8/9/05 wrote:
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>> it is equally difficult to believe that the Gekko FPU ISA extension
>>is something that could be done in a few days and the effort hidden from others
>>involved in the project.
>
>Nothing was hidden, the CPU core was swapped early this year and suddenly this
>new core could do 12 FLOPS/cycle compare to 8 FLOPS/cycle of the DD1 core. Your
>source could have been reassigned to another project by late last year and missed the latest development.
>
>> That is what makes the "they're just unaware of it" speculation equally unlikely as any other.
>
>Why don't you go and ask your source(I forgot his name) to check the DD2 FPU instruction
>sheet again? Is that too much to ask? That would settle the dispute once and for all.

You can click on an older post in this thread and find the name you've forgotten and his level of involvement in the CELL processor project.