RE: FW: [ukbloggers] [OT] Xbox Operating System

["BUTLER, Tony, FM" <tony.butler@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for clearing that up Gerard.
Are we all happy then that it _is_ running an OS (of some description)
and that it _is_ based on an MS operating system? :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerard McGovern [mailto:stuff@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 26 March 2002 12:06
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] FW: [ukbloggers] [OT] Xbox Operating System
>
>
> For those who care what OS the Xbox is running ...
>
> G
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Hammersley [mailto:ben@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 26 March 2002 12:03 pm
> To: ukbloggers@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukbloggers] [OT] Xbox Operating System
>
>
> None of the, erm, above. It *is* stripped down Windows2000 - a kernel
> coming in at about 500k according to Bill G.
>
> However, the memory architecture is different to standard PCs, and it
> technically boots headless, so it's kinda up in the air as to
> whether it
> is actually 2000/NT or just various bits stuck together: I
> mean, the ip
> stack is nicked from bsd I seem to remember (or maybe that's been
> changed) and the graphics procedures are both DirectX at one end and
> custom to Nvidia at the other, so it's not as if you'll be
> booting it to
> a desktop anytime soon.
>
> Sticking linux on it, though, and making a sodding great
> beowulf...ooohhhhhhhhhh
>
> Oh, and the Dreamcast was running on CE. Which explains a lot.


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