Sony PlayStation turns 20 years old Bashny.Net

Exactly 20 years on December 3, 1994 in Japan started selling cult gaming system from Sony. The following year there was a console in the US and Europe. While among the consoles were popular solutions from Nintendo and Sega.

Ken Kutaragi - the father of the brand PlayStation, which has offered to create the Sony game system, but some leaders considered the development of the brand's risky, but the head of Sony Corporation Norio Ohga supported his idea. The original series console, PlayStation, became the first ever game console, which has sold 100 million copies.

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• The CPU: MIPS R3000A-compatible (R3051) 32-bit RISC-microprocessor clocked at 33 MHz 8688. Promoted microprocessor LSI Logic Corp. using technology licensed from SGI. In the chip also includes Geometry Transformation Engine and the Data Decompression Engine.
• Performance - 30 MIPS.
• Bus bandwidth - 132 MB / s.
• Instruction Cache - 4 KB.
• Cache: 1 KB SRAM.
• Geometry Transformation Engine - controller to work with three-dimensional graphics, is placed on a single chip with the CPU.
• Performance - 66 MIPS.
• Announced performance: 1, 5 million. polygons per second, 500,000 textured and lit polygons per second.
• The actual performance: 360 000 polygons per second, 180,000 textured and lit polygons per second. This discrepancy is primarily due to the fact that the formal characteristics have been obtained under laboratory conditions close to ideal.
• Memory:
• Main memory: 2 MB. (16 Megabit)
• Video Memory: 1 MB. (8 megabit)
• Sound RAM: 512 KB.
• Buffer read CD-ROM: 32 KB.
• BIOS 512 KB.
• Memory Cards: 128 KB on EEPROM.
• CD-ROM: a two-speed, 300 KB / s, XA-compliant. < br />  
  
  As a memory card device could also be used PocketStation.
  
  At the start of the console has a good selection of games from a variety of genres.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Source: geektimes.ru/post/242374/