On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:15:41AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > Any particular reason to have G4 as minimum support level? Why not G3? > I was under the impression that the G3 doesn't have altivec. > Simdtech.org/altivec says: > > $ Motorola has shipped two microprocessor generations with AltiVec inside. > $ Motorola calls these generations G4 and G4+. Apple uses processors with > $ the G4+ core, but Apple does not use the G4+ moniker. Mercury Computer > $ ... > > So, are there G3s with altivec? If so could you list which ones?
Why CPUs with Altivec as a minimum support level? -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/