25 Apr
2002
25 Apr
'02
11:05 a.m.
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 a
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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