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How The 360 Works

Posted by Zonk on from the whiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr dept.

The always informative How Stuff Works site has an article today entitled How the Xbox 360 Works. From the piece: "The other interesting thing to note about the Xbox 360 CPU is that each core is capable of processing two threads simultaneously. Think of a thread as a set of instructions for a program's job. The core processes these instructions and does the heavy lifting to get the job done. A conventional processor is traditionally capable of running a single execution thread. Because the Xbox 360 cores can each handle two threads at a time, the 360 CPU is the equivalent of having six conventional processors in one machine."

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  1. I thought it _didn't_ work? by cryptoz · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought something like 15% of Xbox's *didn't* work. Source? Slashdot. Surprise, surprise. It's funny. Laugh.

  2. Wht makes Xbox run by Gilzors · · Score: 4, Funny

    4 words: A wizard did it.

  3. Really? by oahazmatt · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's how it works? And here I thought it was just the latest console using Hype technology.

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    1. Re:Really? by FidelCatsro · · Score: 2, Funny

      I believe the Xbox 360 can perform 3.6 MHpF (Mega-hypes per fact ). The marketing team sat for the last 6 months optimising the performance of the facts ..The new technology breakthrough was thanks to an unprecedented runaway budget and an amazing amount of bullshit performance optimisations

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  4. Better Summary by talksinmaths · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Onion has a summary that is just as informative and much shorter.

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