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Linux on Playstation was the final hubris of Ken Kutaragi to have his insane CPU design take over computing. Kutaragi envisaged the PS3 becoming a standard hard

Linux on Playstation was the final hubris of Ken Kutaragi to have his insane CPU design take over computing. Kutaragi envisaged the PS3 becoming a standard hardware platform similar to the PC but fully controlled by Sony. That was their goal with the PS3, they said so themselves time and time again. The second Kutaragi was removed from power over at Playstation, they closed the Other OS function. It was the last time that a Japanese company made a fundamentally Japanese move.

Nursie 7mo ago
> fully controlled by Sony. And Toshiba and IBM, it was a three-way collab. There was even a second-generation Cell (PowerXCell 8i) released in IBM Q Series blade-servers.
- Keyframe 7mo ago
  Yeah. pretty much PowerPC part two. PowerPC the business move, like the oroginal one.
Antibabelic 7mo ago
> It was the last time that a Japanese company made a fundamentally Japanese move. What do you mean by this?
- Andrex 7mo ago
  It's certainly an extremely bizarre and false statement. Curious what he meant as well.