The Shrine

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://xbox.ign.com/articles/577/577589p1.html">here</a>

Xbox 2 system innards schematic....</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>If they also provide a framework that frees programmers from having to worry about parallel processing issues (which are abundant), this could be a big step in console technology. (And perhaps even computing in general.) If there is no framework to protect programmers from taking parallel execution into account, I doubt it will make any difference. And if they do provide a framework (which could be little more than a compiler) and it requires using a special language then games won't be as portable. But maybe they'll just find a way to parallelize the graphics library.

Anyway, my interpretation of what they said and those diagrams might be wrong, but they've at least got my attention - and frankly, I'm more interested in it as a computer scientist than a gamer.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Early console spec rumors can blow me.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>This is a patent and a schematic that was put on the web in May then quickly taken off as Microshaft said "remove it NOW"</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Gamers only care about the graphics, gameplay, and coolness of the game. The rest is just mumbo jumbo</div>