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by mwilcox 3977 days ago
Xbox One literally runs Windows
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objclxt 3977 days ago
It certainly doesn't literally run Windows for games. The Xbox One is a hypervisor based system where a Windows 8 based OS is used for utility applications and user interface, but a custom OS is used for the games[1]. The believe the latter has as much in common with Windows as the Xbox 360 OS (not a huge amount).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_One_system_software

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banachtarski 3977 days ago
No no no lol.

If it literally ran Windows, it would mean that GPU work is actually scheduled between applications and we'd have TDRs and all sorts of things.

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