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  • A few weeks ago I asked how hard it would be to design a multiprocessor system where one processor was a "pure Altivec" chip and the other processor was some kind of "non-Altivec" PowerPC chip. I asked this because Apple has invested a lot of res…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by cecil September 2002
  • Another question I've had is: how hard would it be to design multiprocessor systems where the two processors are different? I'm thinking that Apple might want to make a dual-processor system where one processor is the new, Power4-derived, desktop…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by cecil August 2002
  • People seem to believe that the 1100 MHz G4 I wrote about above simply has a 100 MHz MPX bus (since 100x11 = 1100) instead of a new, faster bus (it can't be a 133 MHz bus or a 167 MHz bus if we go by the standard "multiplier" logic). I can accept…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by cecil August 2002
  • Before we completely rule out Motorola as the source for the next "G5", I just want to point out something that I noticed in a Motorola document:
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by cecil August 2002