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[sgrddy]

Originally Posted by Amiga_Nut

PS3 uses the Cell processor which is highly unsuitable for an OS, it's really not going to excel in that environment.

Certainly even the older Cell is much faster than 1Ghz PPC chips.

[Amiga_Nut]

Originally Posted by sgrddy

Certainly even the older Cell is much faster than 1Ghz PPC chips.

It's not a case of performance, the SPEs in the CELL are nowhere near as feature rich as the cores in multicore PPC or x86 CPUs. It's a very unsuitable CPU for running a media rich OS that you would want today. Very inflexible in that environment, great for games coding though if you know what you are doing.