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- From: gsnow@clark.edu (Gary Snow)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.video
- Subject: Re: SNES CD Drive: Fact or fiction?!?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.200536.9087@clark.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:05:36 GMT
- Article-I.D.: clark.1992Dec21.200536.9087
- References: <1992Dec18.194528.16753@clark.edu> <1992Dec18.231455.10588@netcom.com>
- Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa. USA
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- In article <1992Dec18.231455.10588@netcom.com> primus@netcom.com (Robert keng) writes:
- >
- > So the "rumored" SNES CD is supposed to be 32 bit? How are
- >they gonna pull that off? (please, no flames. I'm only a Sophemore Computer
- >Science major...) Does that mean there will be a separate processor with the
- >CD-ROM unit itself? What will they do with the hardware on the base unit then?
- >Please, someone out there enlighten little 'ol me :-)
-
- Yeah, it will be very much like the SEGA CD does it, an extra processor on
- the CD unit. Not too sure what they will use the console processor for
- (except to maybe remain compatable). I am sure that they will probably
- use the consoles on board graphics chips and such. This is all speculation
- though of course.
-
- Gary
-
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