And theoretically just as possible is playing PSX games on your Dreamcast. The PSX is a Hitachi sh3 with a video logic graphics chip. The Dreamcast is a Hitachi sh4 with a video logic chip. The sh4 has all of the instructions of the sh3, plus new stuff. It is not that far fetched to imagine that a dreamcast with 16MB of ram could boot one disk to load the emulator, then boot the psx game in it's native 2MB enviroment and just translate the video calls, etc.
The decision to drop the Alpha NT support was not Microsoft's, it was Compaq's. Look at http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?9 90820.pintdump.htm for info. Compaq supplied nearly all of the engineers who wrote the kernel and ported code to the architecture, and now they will be gone. MS says they will still support the platform, but Compaq just cut off an arm and a leg's worth of the project staff. I'm sure Alpha can survive without MS, the question is will Compaq let it. I'm not sure what thier stradegy is, but I hope to see continued Alpha development, afterall they bought DEC for a reason, right?
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And theoretically just as possible is playing PSX games on your Dreamcast.
The PSX is a Hitachi sh3 with a video logic graphics chip. The Dreamcast is a Hitachi sh4 with a video logic chip. The sh4 has all of the instructions of the sh3, plus new stuff. It is not that far fetched to imagine that a dreamcast with 16MB of ram could boot one disk to load the emulator, then boot the psx game in it's native 2MB enviroment and just translate the video calls, etc.
The decision to drop the Alpha NT support was not Microsoft's, it was Compaq's. Look at http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?9 90820.pintdump.htm for info. Compaq supplied nearly all of the engineers who wrote the kernel and ported code to the architecture, and now they will be gone. MS says they will still support the platform, but Compaq just cut off an arm and a leg's worth of the project staff. I'm sure Alpha can survive without MS, the question is will Compaq let it. I'm not sure what thier stradegy is, but I hope to see continued Alpha development, afterall they bought DEC for a reason, right?