G5/Panther and Rev

[Alex Rice]

On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 06:20  AM, Ken Norris wrote:

> Yep, that's what I meant. I understand the backwards compatibility. I 
> hear
> the new Pentium 64-bit chip won't do that.

Yeah that's crazy of Intel. AMD's 64 bit chips don't have that 
limitation?!

> 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?

What Dar said in his post :-) He more than I about it probably. If any 
of you are a feeling particularly adventurous, on OS X do

man vecLib [return] in terminal.app

	NAME
      AltiVec vecLib vMathLib BLAS LAPACK vDSP vBigNum vBasicOps Vector
      Computation Velocity Engine Extended Math Library - This man page 
intro-
      duces the vector instruction set extension to the PowerPC 
architecture
      known as Velocity Engine (or AltiVec) and its accompanying 
libraries and
      programming support in Mac OS X.
	...

I'm not sure if this man page gets installed with the Apple Developer 
Tools CD, or if it's there on clean installs of OS X too.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
alrice at ARCplanning.com
alrice at swcp.com