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

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 00:46:55 10/14/02

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On October 12, 2002 at 19:56:49, Russell Reagan wrote:

>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

I posted something about how the AltiVec could be used in a chess engine.
Unfortunately I can't find it at the moment, since the search engine doesn't
work. :( If you have all the CCC articles locally and a search tool, you should
be able to find it though when using my name and "Altivec" and/or G4 in it.

Sargon



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