Eric B. Richardson wrote:
> At 12:00 PM -0500 3/22/03, Kyle Hansen wrote:
> 
>>On 3/22/03 11:47 AM, "Richard Starr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into
>>the Cybertrough:
>>
>>
>>> Please correct me if I am wrong, but according to a response here, 
>>>OS X itself
>>> has features that are seriously sped up by Altivec
>>
>>You are 100% correct.
>>
>>Kyle H. Hansen
> 
> 
> Kyle, does my old beige desktop with a G4 500 MHz installed running 
> OS X.2.4 need to have the cache enabled by some third party program?
> 

I'm not Kyle, but I do know the answer to that one: YES!

My vote is for PowerLogix' Cache Control, available at their web site. 
Makes a *big* difference in performance!

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs




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