AltiVec and G5
- Thread starter gkhanna
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a G5 with 'improvised' AltiVec sounds cool. Is that a artificial intelligence engine? Does it improvise only the AltiVec set or can it play the blues?
Let's wait for MWSF now.
G5 should have more AltiVec units according to some elder plans (dunno whether Motorola sticks to them...).
(In 1995 we should have had the PowerPC 620 processor with an Intel compatibility layer. True OpenFirmware would have sported Windows NT, OS/2 4.0 and System 8, code named 'Copland'. So you see, plans change. All the time. Never Windows NT for PowerPC, never OS/2 for PowerPC, never PowerPC 620 afaik, although IBM could have done one without using it ever.)
Let's wait for MWSF now.
G5 should have more AltiVec units according to some elder plans (dunno whether Motorola sticks to them...).
(In 1995 we should have had the PowerPC 620 processor with an Intel compatibility layer. True OpenFirmware would have sported Windows NT, OS/2 4.0 and System 8, code named 'Copland'. So you see, plans change. All the time. Never Windows NT for PowerPC, never OS/2 for PowerPC, never PowerPC 620 afaik, although IBM could have done one without using it ever.)
JohnnyV
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I read somewhere that it has close to double the the altivec units, but don't know if this is true. Also that it is running at very high clock rates (well compared to the G4)
Try snooping around motorola's website and check the PPC road map I don't have the time to find the URL's but is you do let us know!
Try snooping around motorola's website and check the PPC road map I don't have the time to find the URL's but is you do let us know!Actually NT for PowerPC was released. NT 3.5 through 4 (up to SP 3 or 4) was able to work on certain PowerPC machines, but not Mac's however.
There was even a review in MacWorld of a PREP or CHRP PowerPC machine running Windows NT 4 and MS Office 97, where the machine trounced the fastest Intel machines and Macs.
Just some useless trivia.
-- Jason
There was even a review in MacWorld of a PREP or CHRP PowerPC machine running Windows NT 4 and MS Office 97, where the machine trounced the fastest Intel machines and Macs.
Just some useless trivia.
-- Jason