Nov 18, 2001 Nintendo released the GameCube console, which competed with Sony’s PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox first generation. This platform belonged already to 128 bit, and used the CPU Gekko production IBM PowerPC architecture as well as graphic accelerator ATI Flipper. In addition, the GameCube was a separate 16-bit sound processor Macronix DSP.
Nintendo GameCube
At the output of the console was worth $ 200, significantly lower than the cost of PS2 and Xbox. But at the end of a six-year cycle indicators Nintendo was modest. The company managed to implement less than 22 million copies, while the PlayStation 2 has sold around the world sold 150 million boxes.
18 Nov 1955, made its first flight of the experimental plane Bell X-2. The aircraft was designed to conduct aerodynamic and thermodynamic studies at high speeds. Its design began in 1949, six years before the first flight. On the idea the plane was supposed to reach heights of 30 to 60 kilometers and travel at speeds up to 3000 km/h. Verification of design parameters was the main objective of the first flight.
Plane Bell X-2 after landing
Bell X-2 had atypical experimental images of the time scheme with a low-swept wing. The hull skin of the wing was made of stainless steel, and the cockpit design meant detachable design for emergency rescue pilot.
The first flight ended unsuccessfully, although the plane managed to land without much damage but the next round of tests in 1956, the aircraft reached the speed of 3000 km/h and successfully climb to 38.4 km.
Bell X-2, auxiliary equipment, and the personnel involved in the test program
On 18 November 1993, Atari began selling console of the Jaguar in the United States. It was marketed as the first 64-bit gaming platform, what was hidden a real marketing ploy. The fact that the processor and graphics chip of the console had a RISC-like 32-bit architecture, and 64-bit was only a graphic coprocessor “That”. To classify such a platform to 64-bit was as senseless as to call a table an animal because it has four legs.
Atari Jaguar
The platform supported the work with cartridges up to 6 megabytes, which is at the moment the console output was considered besperspektivnyak. Competing platforms – in particular the Sony PlayStation, released a year later – used the CD-ROM media. Naturally Atari Jaguar was a failure, during the years of its existence has sold less than 500,000 copies. Although the world still has left clubs nostalgic fans, and under modern OS, you can find a lot of emulators and ROM files games.