XBox 360 Designed for Portability? 66
Spotless Tiger writes "XBox enthusiasts (or at least, those smart enough to read Slashdot) know now that IBM's PowerPC is at the heart of the next generation XBox 360. IBM has released a paper (PDF) on Solid Logic Technology, SLT, a processor technology that will debut on the 360. Essentially, this is another attempt to produce chips that are high performance with low power consumption. There's speculation that, with Microsoft's technology choices and rumours of a removable hard drive, the XBox 360 is designed to be much, much, smaller and more portable than its predecessor." Update: 04/15 04:27 GMT by Z : Removed the link to the paper from the stone age. Sorry about that. As much as I like reading research papers...
Either the submitter is a troll or an idiot (Score:5, Informative)
That article is about technology in the IBM/360 mainframe, and if from 1964.
Re:Either the submitter is a troll or an idiot (Score:5, Informative)
I verified the facts after downloading the 2.9MB pdf file.
At the bottom of the first page you can make out the following words: "IBM Journal - April 1964". It does indeed mention the IBM/360 mainframe! Nice troll in the article.