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IBM Plans to Open the Cell Processor
morcheeba writes "According to an EETimes article, IBM is planning on releasing the full specifications and software libraries for the powerful processor that will be in the Playstation 3. The goal is to stimulate open-source development for other applications of the chip. The article doesn't mention if there will be some affordable development systems for all these programmers -- I'm hoping for a ps3 devkit." From the article: "IBM is eager to find other opportunities for Cell, but it's going to take a lot of software work...Going to the open-source community makes sense, because they could attract a lot of pretty smart programmers who could spin out software and applications for Cell."
I'm sure they're thrilled to have a much larger collective effort being put into their product. Wouldn't you?
I guess if they encourage development outside of the Sony realm, they'd be fostering a 'Splinter Cell?'
Be careful when opening it, if you break it you have splinter cells all over the place.
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... Linux on Playstation!
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>Right, and how much did the Linux Development Kit for the PS/2 take off...
...What?!?...Oh, sorry, you mean PS2 as in Sony not PS/2 as in PersonalSystem/2 from IBM with the MCA bus.
Well it you can run Linux on a model 9595 with the P166 but it is slow. Now I had a Type 4 complex that I upgraded to a P233, and had 256MB of ECC memory on the system and got Gentoo Linux running on it. Was never quite as good at OS/2 on the box.....
Damn, which people would pay attention to details.
Well, if it has a power save mode, is it a Sleeper Cell?
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I think Army may be a little strong, more like platoon or possibly regiment, most of whom probably don't have time for video games.
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Which is of course quite funny because Sony opted to use a dedicated GPU instead of the Cell for rendering the graphics.
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That might clue people into the fact that the Phantom Game Console runs Duke Nukem Forever on AmigaOS.
Going to the open-source community makes sense, because....
they will work for nothing!
Because it is an excellent source of ideas, and ideas are what keep all the IT markets moving.
Really? I thought patents and intellectual property lawsuits were what keep the IT markets moving.
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