notes on new power mac (was Re: clusters v SMP)

[Robert Latham]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 06:38:03PM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote:
 
> reading this triggered me to look at the specs of the new Mac.
> after all, the PPC is a reasonably nice architecture, and afaik
> isn't maimed by 32b-isms.

apple ships a 32 bit powerpc, but you can get a 64 bit flavored
powerpc chip 64 from IBM.

==rob

-- 
Rob Latham
                                             A215 0178 EA2D B059 8CDF  
                                             B29D F333 664A 4280 315B