Hardware Description
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All xbox consoles have these hardwares: - Pentiun III, 733MHz main processor (Celeron class) - A dedicated 200Mhz graphic processor by Nvidia. - 4 input jacks that follow the USB standard, but have a different wire setting. - 64 MB RAM. - 8 or 10 GB IDE HDD. With the lock feature activated (a 32KB password accessed through IDE). - A DVD drive.
For our project we'll use one of the Xbox provided by LISHA (Software Hardware Integration Laboratory, in Portuguese), this is its settings: - XBox version: v1.1 - Pentiu m III, 733MHz main processor (Celeron class) - A dedicated 200Mhz graphic processor by Nvidia. - 4 input jacks that follow the USB standard, but have a different wire setting. - Port 1 has been modified to be a standard female USB port. - 64 MB RAM - 8GB IDE HDD. With the lock feature activated (a 32KB password accessed through IDE). - A Thompson DVD drive. |
So basically its 99.9% a common computer. The only difference lies on the way the hardware interacts with the software, since the BIOS have security functions that test if a program have or have not permission to access any device. All code have to be digitally signed with 2048 bit RSA encryption. This is a very strong encryption, since common bank transactions use a standard 1024 bit RSA encryption.
The xbox also use a specific partition system, the FATX.
Notebook Toshiba
Processor 486DX/4
Memory: 32MB RAM
Other: Xircom Ethernet/Modem, WaveLAN, 8GB IDE.
Note: We saw that the notebook didn't have an USB port when we first had a chance to see it. So it will not be used in the project. Instead we will connect to Professor Guto's Notebook (a.k.a. Killer Robot's Notebook).
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