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Re: cheapest platform yet?
At 11:38 AM 6/30/97 -0700, Ira Abramov wrote:
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>nope, not a gift 486, nor a used old 386... Linux can run on a 64bit MIPS
>CPU, but only 4 megs of RAM on... a Nintendo PlayStation :-)))
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>http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/E/1997/04/036/
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>(Thanks to Dan Peri that forwarded me this URL)
Way cool!
Wonder if one can get IRIX (Silicon Graphics' native OS) to work on a
Nintendo 64 playstation. I suppose that some SGI machines can simulate a
NES 64 playstation with its various connections, for game devlopers to
develop and test their games on it before the final release. But whether a
4 MB only MIPS machine without a proper keyboard and a screen outlet can
support the IRIX OS is a different question.
BTW, as far as I heard, Japanese treated their Nintendos (the original 8
bit playstations) pretty seriously, and people wrote software to perform
stock exchange checking and transactions.
Shlomi Fish
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The Bible dictates that "Thou shalt not seethe [=cook] a kid [= young goat]
in his mother's milk." To avoid possibility of breaking that regulation,
the Jewish tradition ruled that it also applies to female goats, to mature
goats, and to the meat and milk of two completely unrelated goats. It is
also forbidden to eat the meat with fresh milk, and it applies to beef and
mutten as well (including mixing the milk and meat of two different
beasts). Finally, chicken, which are incapable of milk production, may not
be eaten along with any mammal's milk either.
We are fortunate that most mathematicians were not Jewish. Otherwise, it
would have been forbidden to divide by all numbers between -1 and 1.
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