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The PS3 could do general purpose computing. Its built in operating system let you play games, watch movies, play music, browse the web, etc. At the beginning of the console's life you could even install Linux on it.

The hardware of consoles has been general purpose for decades.




The Pentagon even built a supercomputer using PS3s as compute cores.




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