Sony News Portable Workstation NWS-1250 (2020)

Re:Sony News Portable Workstation NWS-1250 (2020) by pjmlp on Saturday January 23, 2021 @03:10AM (#25880587)

I wasn't aware of it.

> Originally the Sony NEWS team had to decide which version of Unix to use: BSD or AT&T System V. The project leader was interested in the potential commercial support for System V, but the engineering team preferred BSD because it had rich networking features including TCP/IP. Eventually BSD was chosen because they believed that computer networks would be important in the future

-- Taken from the Wikipedia related article.

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Re:Sony News Portable Workstation NWS-1250 (2020) by macdice on Saturday January 23, 2021 @04:04AM (#25880808)

It's a nice detail from the Wikipedia article that Ruby started life on NEWS OS.

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Re:Sony News Portable Workstation NWS-1250 (2020) by trollied on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:40AM (#25882123)

Sony have stuck with BSD too. The PlayStation 4 and 5 both run FreeBSD.

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Re:Sony News Portable Workstation NWS-1250 (2020) by pjmlp on Saturday January 23, 2021 @10:08AM (#25882729)

The PS 4 yes does run a subset of it, however I am yet to know about the PS 5, given that I no longer have access to the SCEE technology site.

Where did you got the information regarding PS 5 from?

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Re:Sony News Portable Workstation NWS-1250 (2020) by willxinc on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:47AM (#25890974)

According to some folks on Twitter / Reddit it seems to be running FreeBSD 12. Someone ran an nmap to try and fingerprint it.

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