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To: lkj who wrote (7758)	5/10/2000 3:56:00 AM
From: lkj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10309

Hello there, Anyone familiar with the game console industry? Here is some news on it. Video game industry meets amid big transition ....... The industry is now undergoing one of the major transitions it experiences every few years, as it waits for new generations of video game console hardware to be introduced. biz.yahoo.com This matters to us, because the next generation game console will be DSL ready in my opinion, offering a whole new generation of high speed multi-player real time games. (And also the convergence between game consoles and STBs.) This is opening the door for something like VxWorks. Considering the time to market in this industry, choosing an off the shelf OS only makes more sense. In last year's Embedded Conference in SJ, the sales people from Applied Micro System reveal that IBM was running something called LiveCode, if I remember the name correctly, on the Dolphin system. He also confirmed that LiveCode only ran on PowerPC and VxWorks at that time. If this were true, VxWorks could've had been on Dolphin. As I dig further into this, it appeared that there is a special version of LiveCode developed for the Dolphin project without VxWorks. I am not sure how true the latter was, but the former seemed pretty concrete. A couple of years ago, WRS also demo'd an arcade using VxWorks in a 3D flying simulation. Putting LiveCode, VxWorks for arcade, time to market, and IP-ready requirement together, it would seem reasonable to say that VxWorks may be the OS on Dolphin. In no way that I am suggesting VxWorks is THE OS on Dolphin, but there is some likelihood, and it would make sense. We should have a good clue in a couple of quarters as IBM/Nintendo start release more detail on Dolphin, unless some of you already have inside knowledge on Dolphin. This is pure speculation. Regards, Khan