[Cialug] New Xbox
Richard Harms
cialug@cialug.org
Fri, 13 May 2005 15:39:44 -0500
Its been a while, but Windows NT used to be supported on PowerPCs as
well, an example:
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/2247/2247.html
-rh
On May 13, 2005, at 2:15 PM, David Champion wrote:
> Yeah, it's the "Cell" processor, which essentially has 3 PPC cores. A
> similar CPU will be used in the PS3.
>
> Windows has been ported to other processors in the past: WinNT for
> Alpha, WinCE (and various other names for the same thing) for ARM,
> Hitachi Super<whatever> that's in the Sega Dreamcast & a lot of PDA's,
> a Motorola 68k derivative...
>
> -dc
>
> Darcy Baston wrote:
>> 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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