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."

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[Anonymous Coward]

WOO HOO!

PICTURE OF THE XB360 SOFTWARE EULA

[arothstein]

SHOVED UP MY FUCKING ASS

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m,od 3own

[Anonymous Coward]

some of you have poor priorities, being GAY NIGGERs. while the project

Dev's Already Jumping Ship

[rAiNsT0rm]

"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.

Re:My question is. . .

[crabpeople]

"Since when did you deserve free entertainment? Frankly, you make me sick."

Well your tired old attitude of "entertainment" makes me sick. Entertainment should be made with the goal of seeing your dreams realized. An idea or GIFT to the human race as a whole. The sickness of our world is that these companies some how think they have a right to profit.

If you want to prevent people from playing and enjoying your game, dont release it. Go ahead, hog it all to yourself. This kind of blatent selfishness is what makes the world a sick place. Do you think the inventors of chess made any money on it? or did they make it because thats the kind of game they would like to enjoy with their friends.

theres more to life than money and profit. And don't give me that bull about how they need to put food on their tables. If your really dedicated and creative, (not just re releasing the same hockey game every year like its some revolution) then you will do what you love in the time you have. Does this mean some games would not be made? sure, but i for one can live with less corporate sponsored entertainment thank you.

Evidence? My guess...

[koi88]

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).

Re:What a letdown!

[saintp]

Secretly Roland Piquepaille.