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OpenPOWER opens further

OpenPOWER opens further

Posted Aug 21, 2019 22:54 UTC (Wed) by jccleaver (guest, #127418)
In reply to: OpenPOWER opens further by tshow
Parent article: OpenPOWER opens further

> I do wonder if this opens up some interesting possibilities for hardware-assisted emulation of older hardware, particularly game consoles. Several Nintendo consoles, for instance (including the GameCube, the Wii and the WiiU) and the XBox 360 were PPC, and there are years of Mac software that targeted PPC macs.

And the PS3 (infamously), no?

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OpenPOWER opens further

Posted Aug 22, 2019 14:10 UTC (Thu) by tshow (subscriber, #6411) [Link]

> And the PS3 (infamously), no?

Kind of, but Cell was its own unique beast. The main core is PPC, but a lot of the real work happens in the co-processors.


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