The Logic Off Topic list

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, Urs Heckmann <urs@u...> wrote:
> 
> Yes. It is obvious that the 970 was specificially designed 
> for Apple. 

Yep

> None of IBMs own products nor any other market is known to utilize 
> Altivec. Furthermore, it's obviously designed with "HyperTransport" 
> in mind, a technology that Apple has been working on for over two 
> years now (together with AMD btw).

BTW, the AMD 64-bit chip is also supposed to have implemented hyper-
transport, arguably in a more useful form to us music people than the 
IBM chip (I think AMD's chip can use hyper-transport to connect the 
processor to main memory, while the IBM one uses it to connect the 
processor to graphics hardware instead, and is probably designed more 
for the graphics/video community. or something. ) But the altivec 
commands are significant, yes. 

> here's the countdown to Mr. Jobs' Keynote:
> http://www.3cmug.co.uk/countdown.html
 

[Re: inabilities/difficulties to auto-port software between different 
processor designs under single OS. ]
OK, if you say so. I try not to keep up with OS internals stuff any 
more, I get too wound up about how pathetically little progress these 
guys make. <grrr>