In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:30:23 +0100
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> __/ [ Michael B. Trausch ] on Friday 02 June 2006 06:30 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote in <1692121.QjyeV87upP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Thu, June
>> 1 2006 12:42:
>>>
>>> INTERVIEW WITH SONY-EXEC PHIL HARRISON
>>>
>>> "The Playstation 3 Is a Computer"
>>>
>>> http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,419072,00.html
>>>
>>
>> I am sorry -- I *must* take issue with that. The original Nintendo was a
>> computer, too. Based around the 6502, which was the same CPU used in the
>> Apple II line of machines. For that matter, all gaming consoles have are
>> computers, and if the right hardware were hooked up to them, programming
>> them would be a real possibility. :) The Playstation II, IIRC, was a MIPS
>> based computer.
>>
>> They just have special hardware interfaces that make them unsuitable for
>> use _as_ a general purpose computer.
>
> Yes, definitely.
>
> What makes a computer is often a processor and some memory, probably random
> access. In that sense, all consoles are 'computers', so the word is used
> loosely here. Did the executive mean a "Personal Computer"? Did he allude to
> some capabilities which he believes define a "computer"? And anyway, why
> wasn't the Nintendo which I played a lot as a child not a computer? Some of
> the games it had exceeded the 'richness' of games on my XT desktop
> (performance was not matched). And all I did was pretty much play games on
> that desktop anyway... the main difference was the interface (keyboard
> versus gamepad) and permanent storage (floppy disk), among other factors.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roy
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
My Atari 2600 is a computer, although at this point it's laughably
underpowered. :-) There even was a keyboard option, though be careful;
most of the "keyboards" are of the 10-key variety; Graduate and
Compumate are suggested by
http://www.classicgaming.com/gamingmuseum/2600p.html
(with ad -- sigh.)
Never got either one of those, though.
I don't know what programming language it would use in that environment;
I suspect a variant of BASIC, somewhat a la C-64.
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