[Cialug] New Xbox

[Nathan C. Smith]

It also makes one wonder about the MS-Intel relationship, and whether there
will be backwards portability on old games.  I haven't read enough to see
anything about that yet. 

Before I get blasted for owning an Xbox, my wife surprised me with it.  I
would have gone Playstation if she had asked me, simply because there are
more kid games.  There is a real dearth of preschool or kindergarten kids
games for xbox if anyone is wondering.

I heard the PS3 would have something like 10 chips, maybe 5 dual core?  It
was outrageous.

People will be buying PSX and Xboxen to run computing clusters before long.
"Today's whether forecast, brought to you by Microsoft Xbox"

-----Original Message-----
From: Darcy Baston [mailto:darcybaston@mac.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 2:05 PM
To: cialug@cialug.org
Subject: Re: [Cialug] New Xbox



One chip with 3 cores I think. The PS3 will have a multiple core CPU as
well.

And at 3.x GHz per core...that's some good processing power!

Does raise the Windows port-ability question for sure.

Darcy
 
On Friday, May 13, 2005, at 02:01PM, Nathan C. Smith <smith@ipmvs.com>
wrote:

>
>Anyone find it interesting that the new Xbox uses 3 PowerPC chips?
>
>Can it be extrapolated from this that the core of Windows has been 
>ported to run on PowerPC?
>
>
>-Nate
>
>
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