RE: X Box/Leopard/Ace

["BUTLER, Tony, FM" <tony.butler@xxxxxxx>]

> It's not really a PC, although superficially it does seem to be like
> one.  There are a few differences in the architecture, and there's no
> operating system as such - it just runs an optimised version
> of DirectX
> 8 straight on the metal.

On the contrart, it runs an embedded version of NT.
Think about it - _something_ has to do the disk access stuff, read the DVD
drive, power up and run the main menu screen.
That is the operating system at work - and it is NT!

Also:
Intel x86 processor
nVidia GeForce 3 (Essentially)
USB ports
EIDE hard drive

sounds like a PC to me :-)

Granted the sound capabilities are somewhat more advanced @ present....

> I suppose it could be made to run a simple OS, but there's not much
> memory and the unified memory architecture doesn't have any
> support for
> virtual memory.  It would also be very hard to get the code loaded, as
> there's a few protection mechanisms to be gotten round.

So write a 'game' that just happens to behave like an OS :-)


Tony


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