In message <pine.bsf.3.96.990816201515.19879o-100...@haldjas.folklore.ee> Narvi writes: : > Nintendo 64 uses MIPS. : > : : Which doesn't matter all that much. MIPS cpus for nintendo could be made : by say MISP, not SGI (and SGI sold/is trying to sell MIPS).
Acutally, the Nintendo 64 uses the Vr4300 series of chips from NEC. I think the new Nintendo will use a different (non-mips) processor, but I'm not completely sure what the new one will be (when NEC announced this, MIPS stock took a dive). SGI has already spun out MIPS and has been slowly reducing its stake in MIPS for some time now. However, there is another gaming machine based on a 128bit MIPS design in the pipeline from, I think, Sony. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
