The 1991 "X-Box"

Jim Hall writes "Back in college (1991), I wondered why no one had bothered to make a DOS-based game console. One day, in the back of a notebook, I made some notes about how you might go about creating a DOS-based game console. (I even called it an "X-Box", but really the "X" was there because I didn't know what else to call it. Microsoft's current "XBox" console is completely different, and I don't claim any rights to the "X-Box" name.) I've posted some scans of my notes, and a discussion about how you would create a DOS-based game console."

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The X in XBox

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While waiting for the article link to become unslashdotted, perhaps you'll like to solve the little mystery in this post found on Usenet:

comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: Franoculator
[1] Is Redhat Passing Subliminal Messages for Micros~1?
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Date: Thu Jan 23 23:01:17 EST 2003

I installed the redhat-artwork ebuild for gentoo, allowing me to use Red Hat's Bluecurve them with KDE. After a while, I got sick of it and changed it, only keeping the default Bluecurve font.

Then, I noticed this: http://powell.dyndns.org:8080/img/ms-redhat.png

Direct your attention to the "x", in Greg Cox's name. Is it just me, or does it look somewhat like the logo for a certain M$ product?

Or maybe Greg did that. He did say that some of his SETI units were completed on M$ Winders... hmm...