[Mono-devel-list] Will Mono run on Playstation 3

Sat Jun 25 06:12:42 EDT 2005

I guess that the main benefit of using a PS3 would be the low price of the 
hardware.

It seems they make money by selling games and loose a bit by selling the 
consoles.

Try to buy the equivelent of the Xbox360 for the 400 dollars it will 
probably cost at most.

On 6/25/05, Peter De Jager <peterdj at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> 
> That's really good news. With these kinds of workstations being released I
> think it's inevitable that Mono will be ported, which will mean that it 
> will
> also run on PS3. Thanks for the info.
> 
> Pete.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Harry Holt
> Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 03:12
> To: Mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [Mono-devel-list] Will Mono run on Playstation 3
> 
> This http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20040512033325.html
> may be a little more interesting to work with that the PS3.
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/24/05, Bas Westerbaan <bas.westerbaan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think that the gaming platforms is all about hype. That they use the
> > capability of floating point calculation as the power of the platform
> > is an example of the supervisialness of the whole marketing campaign.
> >
> > A good while after they are released there should be decent tests,
> > which will show exactly which of the platforms is best (for a purpose).
> >
> > Even though linux will run on the PS3 I wonder whether it will be
> > very customizable. And I also wonder whether Microsoft will ever be
> > able to stop people from cracking their protections. It may be harder
> > and take more time, but if their marketing campaign is right they
> > provide one of the cheapest amount of processing power per dollar.
> >
> > Time will tell.
> >
> >
> > On 6/24/05, Peter De Jager <peterdj at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> > > Well, I won't quite say "orders of magnitude". In floating point
> > > Xbox 360 provides (approx.) 1 teraflops while PS3 does 1.8. The cell
> > > processor does have multiple cores, but so does the PPC in Xbox.
> > > They should both be fantastic platforms but my pref would also be
> > > with PS3 ;-) and I don't see MS enabling Linux on Xbox anyway.
> > >
> > > Still, with Linux running on PS3, my question is whether Mono will
> > > run
> > too.
> > >
> > > Pete.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com
> > > [mailto:mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com ] On
> > Behalf Of Harry Holt
> > > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 22:07
> > > To: Mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Mono-devel-list] Will Mono run on Playstation 3
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Harry Holt <harryholt at gmail.com>
> > > Date: Jun 24, 2005 1:18 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Mono-devel-list] Will Mono run on Playstation 3
> > > To: Bram Westerbaan <bram.westerbaan at gmail.com>
> > >
> > >
> > > But I *do* want to use a PS3, because it will have *cell*
> > > processors,
> > which
> > > should bring cooperative computing to a whole new level. You can
> > > send off threads for processing to the SPUs for processing, and even
> > > utilize SPUs
> > on
> > > other networked processors for ad-hoc distributed processing.
> > >
> > > I don't know what you mean about the Xbox2 being "just as fast".
> > > The
> > > PS3 should be orders of magnitude faster, given some careful
> > > consideration to OS optimization.
> > >
> > > ... HH
> > >
> > > On 6/24/05, Bram Westerbaan <bram.westerbaan at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > > On 6/24/05, Peter De Jager <peterdj at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Is the Playstation 3 architecture (Power PC) similar enough to
> > > > > current Mac
> > > > CPU's to allow Mono to run on PS3? With 2 teraflops (!) and sony
> > > > announcing support for Linux, it will be great to be able to run
> > > > Mono on a supercomputer :-)
> > > > >
> > > > > Are there any plans for Mono on PS3?
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I do not know how it should be done. But I do know you don't want
> > > > to use a
> > > > PS3 when the Xbox 2 will have about the same speed but will run on
> > > > MSIL processors :|. I really hope there will be a linux .net one 
> day.
> > > >
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