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Rosetta Supports Altivec?

Tuesday November 22, 2005 6:34 am PST by Arnold Kim
OSX86Project.org posts unconfirmed reports that the latest version of Mac OS X 10.4.3 for Intel appears to contain some substantial upgrades.

First and foremost, they claim that Rosetta has been upgraded to fully support a PowerPC G4 processor including Altivec support.

Also, new ATI drives appear to offer more support for additional PC ATI graphic card chipsets.
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link92
81 months ago
Altivec would be a major bonus, as it'd been quite big preformance upgrades for Pro apps, and some that wouldn't've worked otherwise now will.
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Lacero
81 months ago
Anythings possible with Apple. If NASA can fly men to the moon, Apple can make Rosetta translate altivec code.
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AoWolf
81 months ago
What is is altivec I thought it was some kind of 128bit thinggy that needed to be done on the CPU?
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Benjamin
81 months ago

What is is altivec I thought it was some kind of 128bit thinggy that needed to be done on the CPU?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altivec
http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/summary.html
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AoWolf
81 months ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altivec
http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/summary.html


Thanks!
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lopresmb
81 months ago
wow, thats good news for PPC App users in the future
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bigandy
81 months ago
now i didn't see that one coming.

would be interested to see some hard evidence this were true... :rolleyes:
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entropy1980
81 months ago
If this is true I think this almost guarentees we will Intel Powerbooks soon. The biggest question mark was in regards to pro apps and if Rosetta now supports altivec then I think we are going to see new Powerbooks come January!
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Bear
81 months ago

If this is true I think this almost guarentees we will Intel Powerbooks soon. The biggest question mark was in regards to pro apps and if Rosetta now supports altivec then I think we are going to see new Powerbooks come January!

Of course, this also depends on the speed of the Altivec emulation in Rosetta.
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jane doe
81 months ago
This is bogus information.
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