$60 billion hedge fund uses the "powerful engineering" of the NES
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$60 billion hedge fund uses the "powerful engineering" of the NES
I recently noticed that Two Sigma Investments, the big quantitative hedge fund that manages over $60b of assets, has a section on its website titled "powerful engineering," which features this photograph of what we must assume are employees at work:
They appear to be inspecting the mainboard of an NES Control Deck. The topcase and RF shield are clearly visible on the bench next to them.
And what's that book sitting on the bench?
Hmmm.
Hmmmmmmm.
They appear to be inspecting the mainboard of an NES Control Deck. The topcase and RF shield are clearly visible on the bench next to them.
And what's that book sitting on the bench?
Hmmm.
Hmmmmmmm.
Re: $60 billion hedge fund uses the "powerful engineering" of the NES
“Why the hell did those Japanese goofs loop the audio through the cartridge? We can free up 2 more EXP pins!”
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Re: $60 billion hedge fund uses the "powerful engineering" of the NES
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Re: $60 billion hedge fund uses the "powerful engineering" of the NES
The US army used PS3s for computing? Pfft, we're going to use NESes.
Re: $60 billion hedge fund uses the "powerful engineering" of the NES
Oh my god, they're gonna invent Bender.
Here come the fortune cookies! Here come the fortune cookies! They're wearing paper hats!
Re: $60 billion hedge fund uses the "powerful engineering" of the NES
Ooooooh, very good! I tell you this, my mind was totally BLOWN when I saw that clip on Futurama. I was so proud of myself, safe in the knowledge I was among the 1% of people to probably get that joke.
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Though, you know, the 6502 is also powerful enough to power the ex-California mayer a man killing android!
Re: $60 billion hedge fund uses the "powerful engineering" of the NES
The 6502 is pretty bulletproof.
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I forget, doesn't the 6502 benchmark good enough to have lower clock speeds compared to other 8-bit CPUs of the time? I'd consider that pretty powerful.
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I can't say anything in a technical level, but were most z80 systems bitd 4MHz? Considering 6502 were mostly at around 2MHz and lower (the Apple ][s were at 1MHz) and the systems were comparibly similar in performance (take Famicom vs SMS) I'll say the 6502 was quite good.
The PCE, having a 7+ MHz 65C02 core, should be a 8-bit powerhouse. Considering that the SFC's 65816 ran at below 3MHz I guess that the reason some of its early games being slow was that developers weren't familiar with the chip so they either used mostly 8-bit code (if this is the case these games would perform much worse than PCE games) or that they're sloppy in using the 16-bit codes.
The PCE, having a 7+ MHz 65C02 core, should be a 8-bit powerhouse. Considering that the SFC's 65816 ran at below 3MHz I guess that the reason some of its early games being slow was that developers weren't familiar with the chip so they either used mostly 8-bit code (if this is the case these games would perform much worse than PCE games) or that they're sloppy in using the 16-bit codes.
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Yeah Z80 systems were often 3.58 MHz around this time, so speed was about equal I suppose.
PC-Engine used the fastest RAM chips available at the time and is supposedly even faster than the Mega Drive typically. So yeah it beat all the 16-bit systems in terms of speed at least. It was built powerful to make sure it could use the CD-ROM technology that NEC pioneered but they had to sell it for a loss at first despite the premium price.
PC-Engine used the fastest RAM chips available at the time and is supposedly even faster than the Mega Drive typically. So yeah it beat all the 16-bit systems in terms of speed at least. It was built powerful to make sure it could use the CD-ROM technology that NEC pioneered but they had to sell it for a loss at first despite the premium price.