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Subject: Re: Why there is no good commercial programs for OS/X ?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 16:56:49 10/12/02

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On October 11, 2002 at 12:31:20, George Sobala wrote:

>The only downside is the relatively low clockspeed of the
>PPC for chess engines ! (That is, unless you can squeeze something useful extra
>out of the AltiVec 128-bit vector execution unit)

Sounds interesting. Could you explain what that does, or direct me to a resource
where I can learn about it? I've been considering buying a Mac for a while, but
they're kinda pricey.

Russell



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