Linked by Adam S on Wed 18th Jun 2008 15:14 UTC
RoughlyDrafted magazine has been investigating the details of Apple OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" operating system revision. Last week, they shared an article outlining "what's new in Snow Leopard. They are also outlining myths of Snow Leopard. Although very few details are available, it certainly has not resulted in a shortage of discussion of the next operating system from Cupertino. 
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RE: No multi-core systems on the PPC??
by bousozoku on Wed 18th Jun 2008 16:22
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Member since:2006-01-23
Why do you write:
"There are no multi-core systems on the PPC"
There are many multi-core PPC systems. There are even quad-core PowerMac G5s.
"There are no multi-core systems on the PPC"
There are many multi-core PPC systems. There are even quad-core PowerMac G5s.
The PPC970MP series had 2 cores and Apple put 2 processors in each machine, so yes, effectively quad-core. Those were the last of the series before the Mac Pro
RE: No multi-core systems on the PPC??
by Adam S on Wed 18th Jun 2008 16:52
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RE[2]: No multi-core systems on the PPC??
by evangs on Wed 18th Jun 2008 17:14
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Member since:2005-07-07
I don't see why you need to make that distinction. If it supports multiple cores, it will support any multi processing. It doesn't matter if it's running on PowerPC, AMD or Intel.
This is very different from vector processing that is dependent on the instruction set (i.e. Altivec vs SSE vs 3DNow).
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Why do you write:
"There are no multi-core systems on the PPC"
There are many multi-core PPC systems. There are even quad-core PowerMac G5s.