Everything About The Cell

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"20 years ago an engineer called Jay Miner who had been working on video games (he designed the Atari 2600 chip) decided to do something better and produce a desktop computer which combined a video game chipset with a workstation CPU. The prototype was called Lorraine and it was eventually released to the market as the Commodore Amiga. The Amiga had hardware accelerated high colour screens, a GUI based multitasking OS, multiple sampled sound channels and a fast 32 bit CPU. At the time PCs had screens displaying text, a speaker which beeped and they ran MSDOS on a 16 bit CPU. The Amiga went on to sell in millions but the manufacturer went bankrupt in 1994. Like many other platforms which were patently superior to it, the Amiga was swept aside by the PC."
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http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1426

 

[BlueTsunami]

"20 years ago an engineer called Jay Miner who had been working on video games (he designed the Atari 2600 chip) decided to do something better and produce a desktop computer which combined a video game chipset with a workstation CPU. The prototype was called Lorraine and it was eventually released to the market as the Commodore Amiga. The Amiga had hardware accelerated high colour screens, a GUI based multitasking OS, multiple sampled sound channels and a fast 32 bit CPU. At the time PCs had screens displaying text, a speaker which beeped and they ran MSDOS on a 16 bit CPU. The Amiga went on to sell in millions but the manufacturer went bankrupt in 1994. Like many other platforms which were patently superior to it, the Amiga was swept aside by the PC."
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http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1426

BACK TO THE FUTURE!!!!

KK must be McFly and the PS3 is the DeLorean...

 

[Mulciber]

this write-up is awful

 

[Shifty Geezer]

This write-up has sod-all to do about consoles too. At least, the part quoted.

I like the way author claims Cell's patents are too hard for even tech-head to understand, but he's managed it and is telling us all how it is!

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Okay, stopped readin into the second page.

The PlayStation 3 is expected to have have 4 Cells

The author hasn't a clue. Go home people - there is nothing to see here.

 

[Npl]

The author hasn't a clue. Go home people - there is nothing to see here.

This article was originally published 6 months ago (or maybe even more, theres no "timestap" on it) :http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell0.html

At that time, Details on Cell were very rare, and Details on PS3 even more so, it was nothing more than a GUESS

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Okay. The date at the top says 12 June 2005 - yesterday.

 

[AlNom]

At least someone here paid attention


edit: I mean you, Npl

 

[Npl]

Okay. The date at the top says 12 June 2005 - yesterday.

Well, the news item in question is actually just a Quotation of a 6-months-old Article. Aint making the Article newer.
It was actually quite good when I first read it, just look at Posts dating January 05 on this board and the wild expectations and stupid rumors flying around

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Yes, that's apparent on reinvestigation. Alice Hill leads and then the tech details are from Blachford's old work and other artilces. Just a consolidation of old ideas and nothing we don't already know.

 

[aaaaa00]

At that time, Details on Cell were very rare, and Details on PS3 even more so, it was nothing more than a GUESS

The Blachford article was merely a lame anti-Intel/Windows/PC rant mixed with a ton of technically incompetent analysis and random speculation.

 

[Carl B]

C'mon, don't you guys remember the Blachford article from back in the day? It was a good discussion piece back then, but there's just no need to even read it now that we actually have real information.

 

[PC-Engine]

Like many other platforms which were patently superior to it, the Amiga was swept aside by the PC

Is that a prophecy?