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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:What a letdown! -- *Spoiler Alert* by blueturffan · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "This story is worse than the ending of Citizen Kane, when "Rosebud" turned out to be his sled."

    Thanks for spoiling the ending of the movie for those of us that haven't had a chance to see it yet.

  2. Re:My question is. . . by PyWiz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ummm...excuse me but how is that a troll?

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  3. Re:Wow by gowen · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    And you rightfully got modsmacked for it
    Those of us who've emerged from our parent's basements couldn't give a flying fuck about fucking slashdot karma.
    Look, sparky, you're not always going to get 100% lockstep agreement, ok?
    Well, duh. I don't want a bunch of self-proclaimed tech-elite pseudo-libertarian college boys to agree with me. Christ, the thought of succumbing to the world's most self-involved, self-righteous and least well-informed (outside of their own tiny domain of triviality) groupthink. I prefer thinking for myself, thanks.

    I'd rather proclaim my common humanity with the world than my superiority to it. When you grow up and enter the wider world, you'll either understand that, or continue to be a Republican. And if I lose some worthless "Karma" in the process, this is supposed to make me feel bad? Anyone who feels the need to smugly proclaim their superior intelligence and laugh at those they consider inferior is utterly beneath contempt.
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  4. Re:Heathens! by sim82 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    IMHO w2k was the first and last product from microsoft that was good for anything.

    Everything before it was just ridiculously bad from todays point of view. Win xp uses about twice the disk space and offers nothing w2k didn't have (or i would need. But maybe my computer usage patterns are non standard, as i get anything but playing games done on linux. And yes, I've been working on windows for a longer period.).

    It would absolutely make sense to port their existing w2k derivate to the new xbox hardware. They just need a kernel and some apis (does the xbox include the win32 api?). Nothing they have added to windows since w2k is of any use on a console (especially not all that strange stuff they've announced for the mythical longhorn).