New nintendo console with embedded PPC cpu

New nintendo console with embedded PPC cpu

[Jens Ch. Restemeier]

Hi !

Maybe you already heard, that the new nintendo console is based on an
embedded PPC processor

http://www.next-generation.com/jsmid/news/6615.html

I think this is very interesting, because it may open the way for
videogame development on MacOS and Linux/PPC. I remeber how excited
everybody was that Sony based the PSX2 (MIPS based) development tools on
Linux/i386.

Now let's see how fast we can port Linux/PPC to this system :-)

Jens

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Re: New nintendo console with embedded PPC cpu

[Holger Bettag]

"Jens Ch. Restemeier" <jenschrr@uni-bielefeld.de> writes:

> Hi !
> 
> Maybe you already heard, that the new nintendo console is based on an
> embedded PPC processor
> 
> http://www.next-generation.com/jsmid/news/6615.html
> 
> I think this is very interesting, because it may open the way for
> videogame development on MacOS and Linux/PPC. I remeber how excited
> everybody was that Sony based the PSX2 (MIPS based) development tools on
> Linux/i386.
> 
> Now let's see how fast we can port Linux/PPC to this system :-)
>
More information is available at EETimes and IBM:

http://www.eet.com/story/OEG19990512S0025
http://www.chips.ibm.com/news/1999/gekko/index.html

  Holger

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