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Not sure what more recent xboxes are like, but the original xbox was a cut down windows 2000 running on Intel and Nvidia. It was really close to commodity hardw

by strken 7y ago

Not sure what more recent xboxes are like, but the original xbox was a cut down windows 2000 running on Intel and Nvidia. It was really close to commodity hardware and software.

luch 7y ago
the current Xbox is running a Windows 10 (one kernel design) while the PS4 run a patched up FreeBSD. Only Nintendo bothers with writing custom kernels, and historically Sony with the PS2 having exotic "Cell" processor units.
- StreamBright 7y ago
  You mean PS3? It had the CBE.
- diesal11 7y ago
  The Switch also runs on FreeBSD, not custom.
MrFlynn 7y ago
In terms of hardware, they're running on AMD x86 CPUs. AFAIK there isn't anything special about them, other than having a wider memory bus (they use GDDR5 as opposed to DDR4).
ip26 7y ago
But it had a really thin OS layer, and everybody had virtually exactly the same box, so you could micro-optimize to the exact architecture. IMO it does fit the concept of "domain specific stack", it's just that homogeneity is one of the important properties of the stack instead of unbridled performance.