Actually I had read the article but wasn't thinking of it when I wrote the response. Canon didn't need to say it you could see it in their actions and releases the last few years. Plus it just makes sense. If a cheap full frame sensor and processor that could give us 10 fps had existed in 1995 we would have gotten it. Instead we got this;
http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/c...=1995-2004&p=2