[TriLUG] What did the PS in PS/2 stand for?

Brian Henning brian at strutmasters.com
Thu Dec 8 08:32:23 EST 2005


People people people.  Anyone strongly-enough entrenced in the 
PlayStation world will tell you the proper abbreviation for the original 
PlayStation is /not/ PS1, but *PSX*.  No confusion as the PS One is not 
actually a homonym with anything.

At least, that's what my friend tells me.  ;-)

~B


Ian Kilgore wrote:
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> Rick DeNatale wrote:
> | I' reasonably sure that Sony  came out with a PlayStation 1 (or maybe
> | a PS1 or a PSone, AFTER the Playstation 2. This is not to be confused
> | with the original PlayStation which is the only PlayStation I own.
> |
> | I could be wrong though.
> |
> 
> PS1 (not called that at the time), PS2, then PS one.  I love the masters
> of obfuscation who decided to make '1' and 'one' completely different
> products..
> 
> (Although not that different, PS one was basically a PS1 with a screen
> on it, IIRC)
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