From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 18:49:57 MDT
Charles Hixson wrote:
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> Unfortunately, game consoles are optimized for portability, and are generally so designed that you must buy any software you want to run from the manufacturer. Perhaps they'll decide to allow this one to become more general purpos, but otherwise it's only a pointer along the lines of "This is what we can build now", rather than something that it's reasonable to adapt to another use.
>
I believe Sony sells some kind of "Linux kit" for the PS2, at least in Japan.
>From the brief amount I read, it is said the PS3 will also be designed with
Linux in mind.
-- Brian Atkins Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/
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