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Article #707465Re: Xbox 360 Will Have 512Mb Memory
From: tg... Stephen Edwards
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:04
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:04
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In article <OuydnRpfaf9...@comcast.com>, "shootemup" <shoo...@shooters.com> wrote: > QUOTE: > Xbox 360 Will Have 512Mb Memory During our continuing development with the > Xenon (Xbox 360) we noticed some interesting information in the latest > docs - most notibly about the memory. > > > Quote: > > The Xenon retail console will include 512 MB of UMA system memory. > This is eight times the amount of memory that was available in the Xbox. The > Xenon system software will still reserve six percent (32 MB) of total memory > for system components, such as the visible features of the Xenon HUD, as > well as the non-visible background system tasks. > > > > QUOTE: > Everything we have supports the Beta Hardware that will be shown at E3 - we > hope to be able to support the Xbox's massive homebrew community well into ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Erm... if this is the same homebrew community that puts modchips into their XBOX consoles, puts bigger hard disks in them, and modifies the shell to hold various LEDs and other disco-like features, then they're being very highly hypocritical by stating that considering their past attempts at keeping people from "hacking" the hardware that they paid for with hard-earned money. If what they really mean by "homebrew community" is people doing things within the confines of what thine holy Microsoft determines to be proper, then they need to be educated in the exact meaning of the word "homebrew".
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-12!sn-xit-10!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!ip-140-158-59.phx.extremezone.com!user From: tg...@cyclic.aux.net (Stephen Edwards) Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati,alt.games.video.xbox,alt.xbox.discussion,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,microsoft.public.xbox,microsoft.public.xbox.games,microsoft.public.xbox.halo,microsoft.public.xbox.live,rec.games Subject: Re: Xbox 360 Will Have 512Mb Memory Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:04:06 -0000 Organization: Sentai Anime Studios Message-ID: <tg416-1304051516190001@ip-140-158-59.phx.extremezone.com> References: <OuydnRpfaf9r7cDfRVn-qA@comcast.com> X-Complaints-To: ab...@supernews.com Lines: 33 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit