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Did MSFT use this as a basis for The Xbox360 kernel?

ChatGPT confirms my recollection: No, Microsoft developed a novel kernel and hypervisor for the 360, before moving back to a Windows kernel for the Xbox One.

At some point, the people like me will stop answering you dumb-dumbs who insist on trusting a machine whose purpose is spouting believable nonsense. Today is not that day, for it took me two minutes to get an answer, but instead of the couple of seconds yours took, mine is fucking RIGHT: The Xbox 360 is a heavily modified Windows 2000 kernel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_system_software#Xbox_360_...

It blows my mind that somebody would get an answer from ChatGPT and post it here as a fact without doing the bare minimum to verify that it is actually true. It's insane, thanks for correcting them.

Gaming history is already filled with half-truths and straight up misunderstood things turned into lies because no one cares to write about anything but the players' perspective. Of fucking course the useless LLMs are going to start hallucinating bullshit when they try to navigate that.

The question was whether Microsoft reused their NT 3.5 era PowerPC kernel (& presumably some modification of the HAL).

If you can find evidence that’s the case, I’m intrigued.

Why would I engage with you? You trust Large Language Models! I gave you a bit of time earlier, but that was more than enough. I don't suffer fools twice.

I dunno, this write-up both seems a lot more detailed than Wikipedia re: the hypervisor & kernel and agrees with my recollection as foolishly confirmed by an LLM:

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/xbox-360/#operatin...

Appreciatively discussed on hn!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31678045

Doesn’t sound at all like the NT/2000 kernel/HAL/Executive.

> If you can find evidence that’s the case, I’m intrigued.

If you can find evidence supporting the useless information you posted, I'm intrigued.

LLMs are not sources of information and never will be. No one cares what ChatGPT thinks about anything. It's not helpful to post that, and especially not to then act like it's correct unless someone else has proof otherwise.

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