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To: Goutam who wrote (87472)	1/16/2000 4:23:00 AM
From: Y. Samuel Arai	Read Replies (2) of 1573088

I'm not sure if this has already been posted here before, but according to an article in PC Computing magazine (Feb.2000), there will be three new Game Console machines coming out this fall, to compete against the Sega Dreamcast. They are: the Sony Playstation 2, the Nintendo Dolphin, and the Microsoft X-Box. The Playstation 2 will run on a 128-bit Hitachi "Emotion Engine" CPU; the Nintendo Dolphin will run on a "400Mhz IBM Copper Chip"; the Microsoft X-Box will run on the AMD Athlon processor. According to the article, Microsoft sources say that the X-Box will use the AMD Athlon coupled with an nVidia graphics processor, and run PC games on DVD-ROM, and come with a 56K modem. They say that "it will blur the line between computer and video gaming forever, not to mention provide PC gamers the plug-and-play convenience they've always envied in consoles." It will also mean PC Game software engineers developing for the X-Box will have a much easier time engineering games, as they will be developing for a common hardware platform, thus be able to perfect and fine-tune their games for it. This should also lead to releases of "Microsoft" compilers that optimize for the Athlon soon.

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