24 Apr
2002
24 Apr
'02
10:20 p.m.
my PS/2 is a 'real' computer?
err... change all my refs of PS/2 to PS2 (ie: Sony Playstation 2). Sorry,
spent the day looking at IBM PS/2's (ie: the computer), so the slash just
jumped its way in there.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
24 Apr
24 Apr
11:11 p.m.
Doesn't the notion of a time line mean anything to you? In the 20 years since
the period to which I was referring things have changed considerably since the
density of hardware has increased so much. It makes little sense for vendors
to sell things separately and become huge and difficult to handle just to sell
a little more plastic, when they really don't need to be bigger than a cigar
box.
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.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <mythtech(a)mac.com>
To: "Classic Computers" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: "Toy" computers (was Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers)
my PS/2 is a
'real' computer?
err... change all my refs of PS/2 to PS2 (ie: Sony Playstation 2). Sorry,
spent the day looking at IBM PS/2's (ie: the computer), so the slash just
jumped its way in there.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
25 Apr
25 Apr
7:07 a.m.
And thusly Richard Erlacher spake:
Doesn't the notion of a time line mean anything to you? In the 20 years since
the period to which I was referring things have changed considerably since the
density of hardware has increased so much. It makes little sense for vendors
to sell things separately and become huge and difficult to handle just to sell
a little more plastic, when they really don't need to be bigger than a cigar
box.
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.
Here it is:
Linux for PlayStation 2 Community: Home
http://www.playstation2-linux.com
Bryan
7:31 a.m.
> 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.
Linux for PlayStation 2 Community: Home
http://www.playstation2-linux.com
There's also a NetBSD port for Dreamcast. Haven't gotten around to trying it
yet (I actually went out and bought a Dreamcast when I heard it was being
discontinued because that actually made it more interesting to me ;-).
--
----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
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-- Microsoft has never been to Mars. There's a reason for this. -- A. Sackett -
6:06 p.m.
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
There's also a NetBSD port for Dreamcast.
Haven't gotten around to trying it
yet (I actually went out and bought a Dreamcast when I heard it was being
discontinued because that actually made it more interesting to me ;-).
I did the same thing, buying a Dreamcast after it was discontinued.
But look what happened with the Vectrex: I bought one in 1983, just
after it was discontinued, and now it's a highly sought-after machine.
Just wish I'd bought the 3D imager, too...
--
John Honniball
coredump(a)gifford.co.uk
noon
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Bryan Pope wrote:
I believe NetBSD also runs on Playstation 2.
Peace... Sridhar
--
"How do you fight such a savage?"
"With heart, faith, and steel. There can be only one."
-MacLeod and Ramirez, "Highlander"
Doesn't
the notion of a time line mean anything to you? In the 20 years since
the period to which I was referring things have changed considerably since the
density of hardware has increased so much. It makes little sense for vendors
to sell things separately and become huge and difficult to handle just to sell
a little more plastic, when they really don't need to be bigger than a cigar
box.
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.
Here it is:
Linux for PlayStation 2 Community: Home
http://www.playstation2-linux.com
3:57 p.m.
Well, you can't blame folks for wanting to get something useful out of so
expensive a toy.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sridhar the POWERful" <vance(a)ikickass.org>
To: "Bryan Pope" <bpope(a)wordstock.com>
Cc: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: "Toy" computers (was Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers)
I believe NetBSD also runs on Playstation 2.
Peace... Sridhar
--
"How do you fight such a savage?"
"With heart, faith, and steel. There can be only one."
-MacLeod and Ramirez, "Highlander"
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Bryan Pope wrote:
> > Doesn't the notion of a time line mean anything to you? In the 20 years
since
> > the period to which I was referring things
have changed considerably
since the
> > density of hardware has increased so much.
It makes little sense for
vendors
> > to sell things separately and become huge
and difficult to handle just
to sell
> > a little more plastic, when they really
don't need to be bigger than a
cigar
> > box.
> >
> > 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.
Here it is:
Linux for PlayStation 2 Community: Home
http://www.playstation2-linux.com 
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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For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
27 Apr
27 Apr
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)
a
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)
-] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [-
``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
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