[Cialug] New Xbox

[Nathan C. Smith]

I remembered it was on Alpha and MIPS, but not PowerPC.  Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Harms [mailto:rh-cialug@darkrealms.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 3:40 PM
To: cialug@cialug.org
Subject: Re: [Cialug] New Xbox



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
>
> _______________________________________________
> Cialug mailing list
> Cialug@cialug.org
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>

_______________________________________________
Cialug mailing list
Cialug@cialug.org
http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug