Re: Finally a HiDef Replacement for XBMC?

["Sam Partington" <sam.partington@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not particularly up on xbmc, but I would have thought that xbmc is
running atop of the xbox os, which is a very cut down version of win32
(loosley based on 2k I think).

This may be a fairly small OS, but it would be a seriously big step
for the developers to remove this bottom layer completely.  There's a
lot more hardware abstraction that goes on in your typical OS than
just the CPU, I'd guess the graphics and sound would be the least of
their worries.

Sam

On 08/02/2008, Richard <rich_lists@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I would rather see it running natively on the hardware rather then as
an
>  application ontop of an operating system. It does that on the xbox
hardware
>  which is an intel CPU, so all they would have to do is get it booting
xbmc
>  and provide a way to format the drive in a way that's compatible with
xbmc.
>  - Sure, there will be graphics chipset issues too but that's all
solvable
>  since the apple hardware has an intel cpu just like the xbox.
>