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minus-squareFlying SquidlinkEnglish46•5 months agoReminds me of when Iraq supposedly imported thousands of PS2s to make a supercomputer. https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/12/20/iraq-scores-hordes-of-ps2s-at-us-gamers-expense
minus-squareteftlinkfedilinkEnglish27•edit-25 months agoMaybe this is why it was so easy to get a PS2 in iraq. That’s crazy, 20 years later and mystery solved for me.
minus-squareNever_Sm1lelinkfedilinkEnglish10•5 months agoThere’s also the one with ps3, which is more suitable because ps3’s cpu is a supercomputer one
minus-squareflying_monkieslinkfedilink8•5 months agoWould explain why the Air Force used PS3s, can’t be behind the tech curve!
minus-squareWHYAREWEALLCAPSlinkfedilink13•5 months agoIt made sense. There were also university CS departments doing the same thing. The Cell processor in the PS3 was pretty damn powerful for the price at the time.
minus-square@sir_reginaldlinkEnglish12•5 months agoand iirc, it had Linux support, so it was perfect because Sony was selling the hardware at a loss to sell more units and consequently sell more games. when people started buying ps3s to install Linux, Sony made a firmware update to block this.
Reminds me of when Iraq supposedly imported thousands of PS2s to make a supercomputer.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/12/20/iraq-scores-hordes-of-ps2s-at-us-gamers-expense
Maybe this is why it was so easy to get a PS2 in iraq. That’s crazy, 20 years later and mystery solved for me.
There’s also the one with ps3, which is more suitable because ps3’s cpu is a supercomputer one
Would explain why the Air Force used PS3s, can’t be behind the tech curve!
It made sense. There were also university CS departments doing the same thing. The Cell processor in the PS3 was pretty damn powerful for the price at the time.
and iirc, it had Linux support, so it was perfect because Sony was selling the hardware at a loss to sell more units and consequently sell more games.
when people started buying ps3s to install Linux, Sony made a firmware update to block this.