> My understanding is that both systems use a custom AMD A10 Jaguar processor with 8
> cores. The AMD FX-9370 is a related (piledriver) chip and is available at Newegg, so
> the hardware side of things can be supported. Great for the emulation overhead.
The chips in the consoles are not identical to any consumer-available chip, and an emulator that ran only on AMD processors would be useless when they go out of business next year (Sony and MS fab the chips themselves, so that wouldn't affect them).
> Software wise would be with Aaron. After all he was on the development team....right?
Aaron was not involved with Xbone. Dave Cutler, the original author of WinNT, did the OS work. Also, Aaron likes his job and would like to keep it and not be prosecuted.
Xbone's software stack is a modified version of MS Virtual PC running more or less on the bare hardware, and two always-running VMs: VM1 runs games on a revision of the 360's stripped-down Windows with no-COM DirectX and other differences for efficiency (so e.g. a Wine-like solution would be impractical) and VM2 runs apps like IE11, Skype and the dashboard on basically stock WinRT 8.1.
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