Speculation about XBox 360's OS

daRk_heLmet · May 25, 2005, 09:12 PM

As we stated in our previous story on this topic, the earlier Xbox was based on a Pentium-family processor and was said to run a variant of Windows 2000. But the new Xbox 360 has a completely different architecture, based on a custom triple-core IBM PowerPC processor along with other specialty silicon including a custom graphics processor made by ATI, plus 512MB of system DRAM.

Since neither Windows XP nor Windows CE supports the PowerPC architecture (Windows hasn't supported PowerPC architecture since Windows NT 4.0 SP3), we devised the following set of alternatives for the Xbox 360's embedded OS:

- A hitherto unpublicized port by Microsoft of Windows XP or Windows CE to the PowerPC

- A version of some off-the-shelf embedded OS, possibly even a variant of BSD Unix or #%$@& (sorry, our censors deleted the "L-word")

- A new embedded software platform developed specifically for Xbox use.
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May 25, 2005, 09:12 PM	#1
daRk_heLmet Keep firing, assholes! Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Death Star Posts: 1,072 Rep Power: 0	Speculation about XBox 360's OS As we stated in our previous story on this topic, the earlier Xbox was based on a Pentium-family processor and was said to run a variant of Windows 2000. But the new Xbox 360 has a completely different architecture, based on a custom triple-core IBM PowerPC processor along with other specialty silicon including a custom graphics processor made by ATI, plus 512MB of system DRAM. Since neither Windows XP nor Windows CE supports the PowerPC architecture (Windows hasn't supported PowerPC architecture since Windows NT 4.0 SP3), we devised the following set of alternatives for the Xbox 360's embedded OS: - A hitherto unpublicized port by Microsoft of Windows XP or Windows CE to the PowerPC - A version of some off-the-shelf embedded OS, possibly even a variant of BSD Unix or #%$@& (sorry, our censors deleted the "L-word") - A new embedded software platform developed specifically for Xbox use. _____________________ Read More/Source: Windowsfordevices __________________ [color=white]My Blog[/color]