10 Feb
2013
10 Feb
'13
10:14 p.m.
On 2/10/2013 7:31 PM, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
The PS1 used a MIPS R3000, the N64 was a MIPS R4300 variant. The
Gamecube was a PPC variant, IIRC. Off the top of my head, I think the
3DO was ARM-based.
- Josh
Why
couldn't that horse be SPARC? What is the ARM story that
corresponds to Niagara and CoolThreads?
It's not clear that a box of 128 ARMs is going to be more efficient
than one CoolThreads CPU.
Well, unfortunately I have very limited knowledge on sparc
architeture (beyond knowing they were used in playstation 1 and one of
the nintendo consoles (N64 or Gamecube, I'm not sure which) so I
cannot develop this talk