Now now. We can't hold him to the $199 price. Even M$ can't do that.
They are selling them at a loss. Plus if someone were to properly
motivate me, I would be willing to make a motherboard circuit for a 386
to handle what you speak of. Of course the mobo would have to include a
slot for video and audio comp./decomp. Now of course we are talking way
out of the $199 market. 

Of course, I wouldn't recommend anything less than a 486 myself. ;')
I seriously doubt that Pentium 733 is really being utilized much in an
XBox. Except maybe to handle the bloated Winblows code.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Fowler [mailto:jfowler@westrope.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 9:59 AM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Cc: david nicol; zscoundrel
> Subject: RE: blowing off microsoft stink
> 
> 
> Hmmm, I highly doubt that. First, you can't put an nVidia 
> graphics card in a
> 386, there is no AGP or PCI slots available (and a 386 
> doesn't have enough juice
> to push it). Second, the X-box has an Intel 733Mhz PIII in 
> them, this will run
> circles around that 386 and you WILL notice the difference. 
> Third, you can't put
> a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundcard in a 386, same reason - no PCI 
> slots. Four, where
> would you hook the four game controllers up to a on a 386? 
> Five, all the 386
> motherboards I worked with would not be able to handle an 8GB 
> hard drive. Hell,
> it wasn't until after the Pentium mobos that they were able 
> to get past the 2GB
> limit.
> 
> However, if you meant 386 as in Intel's x86 architecture, 
> then you should have
> specified x86. Then again, if you were referring to the 
> architecture and
> assuming you meant to put BSD with some sort of Xbox OS 
> emulator on a modern x86
> PC that is as fast  as a 733MHz PIII, has a DD5.1 soundcard, 
> an nVidia GeForce
> III graphics card, a DVD-ROM drive, 4 game controller ports, 
> and an 8+ GB Hard
> drive. Do you really think you can scrap all that together 
> for under $199? Good
> luck... ;-P
> 
> -Jeremy
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
> > [mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of david nicol
> > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 6:24 PM
> > To: zscoundrel; kclug@kclug.org
> > Subject: blowing off microsoft stink
> >
> >
> > zscoundrel offered his shard of wampum:
> > >
> > > It is not a really new concept, and it works pretty well 
> when it works,
> > > but the article sounds like M$'s way of blowing some of 
> the stink off of
> > >   the "XP" logo. . .
> >
> > I want to launch an advertising campaign about how *BSD can turn
> > any old 386 into an X box.
> >
> > --
> > Mad, adj.:
> >         Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence
> >                 -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
> >
> >
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