Re: Gamers

From: -Andy- (see2go4me_at_spamdelicious.yahoo.com)
Date: 08/30/05 

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:52:30 -0500

Jeff Cameron <roktsci@comcast.net> enlightened us with:

> The most popular Gaming Console (Microsoft's X-BOX) is
> based on the Power-PC G series Processors, same as the
> MACintosh.

When did that happen? The X-Box (according to a quick
Google search) has a 733MHz Intel Celeron CPU with a custom
graphics co-processor and 64MB ram (etc.) running some
Windows variant.

The NEXT X-Box, the X-Box 360 uses some custom IBM chip
based on the PowerPC.

Sony's current video game machines (PS2, PSP) are based on
some MIPS chip family...

SONY's next-generation game console uses that cell
processor thing, also based on a PowerPC core.
(See: http://cell.scei.co.jp/index_e.html for docs from
SONY (pdf's))

Not that VMS is ever likely to run on it (not unless
someone ports SIMH to it anyway...)

-Andy- 

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