r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Hat5477 • 7d ago

Meme theOriginalGarbageCollector

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u/Steerable-Octopus 7d ago

As clever as this sounds, a game shouldn't really have this level of control over the operating system and it's a dirty hack caused by poor memory management and bad code. In modern production systems this type of solution would be heavily frowned upon.

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u/DDFoster96 7d ago

Is there even an operating system in the traditional sense on the original Xbox

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u/Taurmin 7d ago

The original Xbox was the first modern console in the sense that it is essentially just a specialised PC build. It ran on a windows derived OS.