Memes

45619 readers

571 users here now

Rules:

Be civil and nice.
Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

735

No PS3 backwards compatibility (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

79 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes it is hard, and that was their damn fault. I can’t believe they expected developers to have to program which processors take which loads with such granularity. Unbelievably stupid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Was the idea to improve performance?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It is, and it does provide improved performance at the expense of complexity. Both India and the US Air Force actually used clusters of PS3s to create supercomputers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(processor) has some more details as well

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, when used properly it did out perform the competition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yes but the modest improvement in output over the 360 was clearly not worth it