[ Thanks to Glyn
Moody for this link. ]
“The one glimmer of hope for the company was the PS3.
Now, that might seem relevant to business users, but Sony’s
decision to allow other operating systems – like GNU/Linux
– to be installed on the PS3 turned what seems a rather
specialised piece of kit into something rather splendid: a really
low-cost supercomputer. Indeed, if you needed really high-end
computing, the PS3+GNU/Linux combination was probably the cheapest
way to achieve this.“No more:”
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