G5/Panther and Rev

[Ken Norris]

Hi Alex,

Thanx for the Re.

> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 00:38:04 -0600
> Subject: Re: G5/Panther and Rev
> From: Alex Rice <alrice at ARCplanning.com>
> 
> 
> On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 09:11  PM, Ken Norris wrote:
> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> Can someone on the list give us a rundown on some of the implications
>> of Rev
>> and the MC engine working with the new Mac G5 PPC and OS 10.3 Panther?
>> 
> I'm no hardware expert, but there is no need to worry- the G5 is
> totally backwards compatible for 32 bit PPC software. All your software
> will continue to run as normal.
> 
> Something that would be really cool, however, would be a set of
> externals for doing SIMD routines on various architectures like Altivec
> (g4,g5), Intel and AMD also have their own SIMD instruction sets.
> Kinda like how Adobe is going to release a photoshop "g5 plugin" to
> utilize those routines.
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Yep, that's what I meant. I understand the backwards compatibility. I hear
the new Pentium 64-bit chip won't do that.

But, I wanted to know if MC/RR will make use of it in the near future.

I don't know what SIMD is. Can you explain?

Ken N.