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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by luch on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:10PM (#21326095)
the current Xbox is running a Windows 10 (one kernel design) while the PS4 run a patched up FreeBSD.

Only Nintendo bothers with writing custom kernels, and historically Sony with the PS2 having exotic "Cell" processor units.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by StreamBright on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:48PM (#21326595)
You mean PS3? It had the CBE.
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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by diesal11 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @08:21PM (#21340461)
The Switch also runs on FreeBSD, not custom.
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