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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!kettle.magna.com.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!ka.sub.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!informatik.uni-koblenz.de!ralf From: ralf@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Ralf Baechle) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Unix on a Sony Playstation? Date: 18 Oct 1995 23:16:57 GMT Organization: Uni Koblenz, Germany. Lines: 13 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4641t9$390k@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <45lnql$sft@due.unit.no> Reply-To: ralf@waldorf-gmbh.de NNTP-Posting-Host: ozzy.uni-koblenz.de In article <45lnql$sft@due.unit.no>, kim@pvv.unit.no (Kim G. S. \yhus) writes: |> The sony playstation is the machine with most power for money today. |> It is supposed to use the MIPS 3000 processor, I think. |> |> Why not check if the CD-rom is IDE, SCSI, or whatever, and replace |> it with a similar harddisc containing Unix? I've been chatting about porting Linux and other free Unices to the Playstation with some top manager of MIPS on the this year's CeBit. They liked the idea as a nice joke - just as running one of SGI's fabulous and expensive work- stations under a free OS. Ralf