On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, John wrote:

>While we're on the subject of ports...
>
>Sony PlayStation 2 will be oficially released in the US on October 26th
>2000.  PS2 is going to be an incredible piece of hardware for the price
>(300 bux).  If the hard disk/network unit is released in the US, which I
>hope to goodness it is, and Sony isn't a buncha prudes on releasing
>specs, it would be a perfect candidate for running a real OS like
>NetBSD.
>
>If I remember correctly, it will ship with a 128bit cpu, ~7mil
>polygon/sec graphics controler, and 32mb or ram.  The hard disk will
>probably be 1gb, and the network adapter should be 10/100bt.  It'd be
>nice if the ram will be upgradeable, but 32m is plently to load a
>kernel, X and a few other things.
>
>Are plans already in the works for a port to this platform?  If not,
>I'll research it as much as possible once I get my hands on mine
>(already pre-ordered), but I'm not much of a hardware guy (or not yet
>anyways :)  Any thoughts on this subject?  Does migrating to 128bit pose
>any particular problems with NetBSD?  ttyl

You might be interested by something which appeared on slashdot yesterday
(http://slashdot.org/articles/00/07/25/136248.shtml): a prototype graphics
workstation which Sony is developing which is effectively 16 PS2s rolled
into one.


Roger

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