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RE: X Box/Leopard/Ace


  • To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: X Box/Leopard/Ace
  • From: "Gerard McGovern" <stuff@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:22:53 -0000
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> > > 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!
> >
> > If we are going to be accurate, it runs a cut down version
> of Windows
> > 2000.
>
> Look at
> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/2001/02-06devcon.asp
> and search for 'xbox'.
> Mr Ballmer seems to think it is embedded NT - and he should know :-)

I could be wrong, but I was sure it was Windows 2000. Oh well.

Anyway, for more on the Xbox, look at:
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1561&p=1

And for more on why you should never believe what Mr Ballmer says, look
at:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24284.html

(down the bottom)

G




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