Re: Hey, idiots!

[toddpw@chop.ugcs.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)]

jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L Brookes) writes:

>The Sega Saturn uses a custom chipset derived from the MIPS series.  The
>new Nintendo box will use a 4200 series varient.

The Nintendo box is the one I was thinking of.

The Sega Saturn is using a Hitachi owned architecture for its main CPU. It
is called the SH2 (for "Super Hitachi 2") and is the second version of the
Hitachi designed SH architecture. Assuming Sega hasn't gone through a total
ideological inversion in the last couple months, that is. (The MIPS and the
SH are radically different RISC architectures; the SH is like a RISC chip
trying to get 6502 code density on games, and the MIPS is just brute force.)

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ ugcs.caltech.edu