Inside old games machines, was: Re: Simulated CP/M-68K?

Patrick Finnegan pat at computer-refuge.org
Mon Jun 18 11:00:16 CDT 2007


On Monday 18 June 2007 11:23, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On 18/06/2007 13:46, Allison wrote:
> > Did the RISC CPUs (arm, strongarm, and friends) make it in games?
>
> Nintendos use ARM/Xscale, and so does the Playstation Portable.  Sony
> Playstations are mostly MIPS.

The PS3 is a IBM Cell proc (PowerPC), the XBOX360 uses a triad of PPC 
cores, and the Nintendo Gamecube (possibly Wii also) use a PPC chip.

Pat
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