Theinquirer.net says the Xbox 2 SDK was released on Apple Power Mac G5s running Windows NT (huh?)

From the theinquirer.net:

WE’VE JUST got word that the Software Development Kit (SDK) for Microsoft’s forthcoming Xbox 2 has now been released to Developers. As we reported earlier, IBM processors are indeed the Xbox 2 development platform of choice. The big news to us is that the XBOX 2 SDK has been seeded to developers on dual Apple Power Mac G5 systems running a custom Windows NT Kernel.

From the theinquirer.net: WE’VE JUST got word that the Software Development Kit (SDK) for Microsoft’s forthcoming Xbox 2...

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S.DAVIDS

I recently read that the xbox2 will be powered by 3 IBM power pc 976 chips running at 4 Gs , each being dual core chips. this gives the scope of a six cpu powered machine.

May 19 2004 at 7:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eric Rolph

Microsoft DID recently buy Connectix's Virtual PC for the Mac OS and are developing it into a G5 optimized version soon to be released in Office 2004. The current and previous versions emulated Intel chipsets. Is it possible they've rewritten the kernel for PowerPC, lets hope.

April 06 2004 at 9:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kelly Jones

The Xbox has always run on NT 5.1, which is Windows XP. NT 4 was the last product sold as "NT", while NT 5.0 was sold as Windows 2000.

April 06 2004 at 9:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply