27 Apr
2002
27 Apr
'02
2:12 a.m.
Often there's good reason why folks hacked their video toys to use them for
computing. Toy manufacturers weren't blind to this.
The packaging is a problem under some circumstances, since making an elegant
game station is a different task than making an elegant computing station.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Wright" <dtwright(a)uiuc.edu>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: "Toy" computers (was Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers)
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Richard Erlacher said:
>
> The grandkids have Playstations. Adults might want 'em too, since some of
the
> games are pretty slick. I don't relate to
that, myself, but I know lots
of
folks enjoy a
game as a form of diversion. I don't think anybody would
mistake one for a computer though it wouldn't surprise me to learn that
somebody somewhere had figured out how to make it run Linux. I just can't
imagine why one would want to.
Well, for starters, the thing has a pretty impressive MIPS core, and there's faculty member here who's porting computational
chemistry apps to the PS2
running linux...
http://spawn.scs.uiuc.edu/research/sonyps2/ps2project.htm
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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