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stratjakt

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Turning And Old Pc Into An Xbox?
« on: January 07, 2003, 10:40:00 PM »

Short answer: no.

An xbox isnt a PC.  Many people just assume it is, but it really isnt.  It uses many of the same and similar components, but in a much different way.

Basically there are just too many huge differences.  They'd only really be dealt with through some software emulation, which I believe will be a reality one day, but only after a lot of fancy code is written.


For one, the memory architecture is shared - the GPU and CPU basically share an overlapping address space, very very different from the AGP/PCI bus used in the PC world to move data.
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