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The Scoop on the Xbox 360's Embedded OS?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-could-it-be-man dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When the Xbox 360 was launched two weeks ago amid much brouhaha over its custom-designed IBM PowerPC-based CPU with 3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2GHz each, WindowsForDevices.com wondered aloud, 'What OS runs inside the Xbox 360?' Now, the website thinks it has found the answer to its question. No, it's not Linux or BSD, nor a derivative of Longhorn or Windows CE."

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  1. Re:Wow by rovingeyes · · Score: 4, Informative

    I take it that you didn't even bother to RTFA. It says it has roots in windows 2000 but it is NOT windows 2000, a derivative may be but NOT windows 2000.

  2. Huh. by PsychicX · · Score: 4, Informative

    All that fuss to say it's a simple derivative of NT, in its second generation of console-ness.


    That was certainly a surprise. Oh wait, no it wasn't.

  3. Re:My question is. . . by MrAnnoyanceToYou · · Score: 5, Informative

    XBox was a 400$+ Million Loss Leader.

    Anyone else know how to spell 'monopoly'?

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