--- Peter <plp@actcom.co.il> wrote:
> 
> According to this article:
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/technology/17sony.html?8hpib
> 
> Next year's games consoles will feature 2x3.2GHz cpus (Xbox 360) and
> a 
> 9x<what core - mips?> for Playstation 3. If that is true than the 
> consoles will outperform most desktop systems sold in 2006 (few of
> which 
> will feature dual CPUs).
> 
> Peter
Well maybe it will be more hackable than the playstation 3. This is not
surpriseing as Sony stated that the design of the graphics subsystem
would be applied to high end machines. Also to note the PS-2 basically
boots linux. Why do you think it was so easy for them to put linux on
it? Well it already has it. However they had to add wrappers in the
driver system so that people wouldn't know how the IO to the hardware
worked (for a while at least).

I might also point out that game consoles are very specific in there
purpose. Thus they have significantly limited resources in terms of
internal memory and writeable space for monkeying with.  They are
designed to run a preconfigured OS (booted from the DVD) that has a
limited number of needed drivers.

So this is really no surprise, it still is mostly inflexible, namely
because of how Sony chose to license making products for it.

Stephen R. Phillips was here
Please be advised what was said may be absolutely wrong, and hereby this disclaimer follows.  I reserve the right to be wrong and admit it in front of the entire world.


		
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