OpenEuphoria

1. game console OS's

• Posted by Norm Goundry <bonk1000 at HOTMAIL.COM> Apr 22, 1999
• 519 views

Thanks people!

The response to this has been overwhelming.  To answer a couple of
questions...  the Mips IV compliant Playstation2 has been announced by Sony
to be using a Linux (Happy!!!) OS, being ported over to it through the
cooperation and skill of Metawerks.  This means that this will become very
much an Open Source system.  The Mips IV compliant 128-bit machine from
Sega, Dreamscape, on the other hand, is to be saddled with (believe this!)
Windows CE, of all things.  Nintendo is being very mum about what their
MIPS IV compliant 128-bit, next generation box will run on besides having
Net access, but I suppose they could go with a pure Java System from Sun
just to round things out.  Total sales of these things will be about 60
million boxes a year.  Nothing to sneer at, for sure.

The long and short of this is that Eu should run on Windows CE[Crippled
Edition] and also on Linux when Robert gets done with the porting over of
Eu to it.  What I am trying to do is bet down -below- these two things,
sort of in the basement, where things are not so complex.  Like just having
access to the power of those old-time DOS INTERRUPTS without having the
rest of Dos there at all.

It is true that one needs an Assembler before they need a Compiler, if they
don't have an OS, perhaps I should have been a bit more plain about this.

Incidently, I really appreciate the many, many different ideas and
approaches brought out by everyone that writes to the general forum, I look
forward to reading it throughout the day, and I don't think that anyone
should quit because of the occasional bickering that breaks out.  So would
Daniel please reconsider his action about this?  Things do change; that's
what its all about.

As usual
Norm