[geeks] nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro

[velociraptor]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 03:37:40PM -0400, Sandwich Maker wrote:
>> " From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
>> " The PS3 could possibly run linux by default.  Sony claims not, but that
>> " could be cluesless press people meaning that it isn't user accessible
>> " (at one time there had been talk of them installing YDL on all PS3s by
>> " default).  They do keep a hypervisor running when you setup linux, to
>> " prevent linux from using all of the hardware.  I suspect they are afraid
>> " that someone could otherwise use linux to copy BluRay discs or games.
>>
>
> I expect that Sony runs linux on the PS3s quite a lot.  I just don't
> know if that is what they install for basic system management on the
> retail units.

Based on my experience with the PS2 team, I doubt that the game
developers are regularly running Linux for their development
environments.  Tool chain improvements at Sony (at that time, '01)
were very slow, and keep in mind my guys were closer to R&D than
actual commercial development teams.

One particular guy (very brilliant guy, I might add) on my team was
handed rewrite of the PS2 network stack to make it fit on the I/O
subsystem chips[0].  He was working on two other stacks, one the
then-current code given to game developers, and another that had been
worked on for something like 2 years by the toolchain group.

=Nadine=

[0] The production PS2 I/O subsystem had 2MB available; the
developer's 10MB; the test systems (used for QA) 6MB.  That re-written
stack came in at 8MB compiled.  I'll let you guess which
$network_juggernaut did this contract re-write.