Re: Descent on Xbox

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From: Jim Bianchi
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:26

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On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:47:59 GMT, El Marko wrote:
> I read something about Descent getting "ported" to Xbox. Sorry, I don't 
> know what porting is, but can someone 'splain it to me?

	Generally speaking, porting is the process of changing the code in
the target executable so that it can run on another processor which has a
diffferent instruction set (or a different way of doing things), with the
ultimate end of getting the new processor to do (or display) the same thing. 

	Not all processors have the same instruction set, and some do things
in a different way, requiring these differences to be taken into account. 

-- 
jimbo@sonic.net 

"There are only 10 kinds of people in the world;
those who understand binary, and those who don't."

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