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Re:The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers by anthk on Saturday December 07, 2019 @09:15PM (#21733972)
>The weird PS1/PS2/PS3 were because of Japan's heavy arcade culture, where quirky hardware/software designs were the standard.

MSX, PC98. The Nintendo uses a standard 6502 CPU with a PPU and the Mega Drive used the uberknown M68k.

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Re:The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers by Jasper_ on Saturday December 07, 2019 @10:53PM (#21734245)
I mean, the PS3's Cell uses PowerPC. We're not talking about the ISA here, but the architecture and bizarre stuff coming along with it, like the NES PPU.
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