Xbox Embedded Operating System
- The Xbox does not have an operating system per se, instead it only has a basic BIOS.
- Everything else must go into the main executable and its (XDK and own-made) libraries.
- Only a single thread (executable program) can run at a time on the Xbox.
- Xbox hard drive file system (FATX) has many limitations, among them a maximum file name length of 42 characters.
- The Xbox has four non-standard USB ports but the Xbox SDK (a.k.a. XDK) does not contain a full USB stack, thus to add support for USB hardware devices, the developer would have to code the entire USB stack from scratch.
Read more about this topic: Xbox Development Kit
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