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The Scoop on the Xbox 360's Embedded OS?
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."
"yesterday development company Factor 5 helped Sony fire another blow to Microsoft's camp by declaring allegiance to the Playstation 3. President Julian Eggebrecht told News.com that the Playstation 3 offered more processing power to more easily simulate the real world for a better game experience. The company had previously stated that it would work on the Xbox 360."
No matter what hype they spin, developers have been grumbling about the Xbox 360 design from day one as the specs were released, and now dev's are already giving up on it before it even begins! It is going to be a bear to program for (on par with the Saturn/PS2), (as can be seen from the amount already running on PS3 which is farther behind in production) So far the only thing to be said for the Xbox is by RARE (who MS bought out for Kameo, which has been scrapped twice) and all they have said is how many characters they can get onscreen at once... Yawn. The graphics look like PS2 or mid-high PC at best.
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I didn't see any evidence that the XBOX 360 OS is based on Windows 2000.
My guess is that it's based on Darwin, or Darwin's BSD core which should be free to use.
IMO, that explains how XBOX game-demos can run on Power Mac G5 computers (as seen on AnandTech).
MS has "borrowed" code from BSD before (for Win 2000, if I remember correctly).
I don't need a signature.
Secretly Roland Piquepaille.
Another one bites the dust