"Again, it seems CL did very little of their own work on P5." Could be, but a complete rewrite would require less familiarity with the old codebase. Contract coders should be able to do that just fine given the specs. Maybe FireFly was already written by someone else (without HW assist) and they just bought it. Maybe Bush and Sadam are secret lovers, I don't care much about that either at this point.

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