PPC 970: Apple, Thendic, Eyetech

[DethKnight]

as far as the "bit-ness" of ppc970 , I'd recommend reading;

http://arstechnica.com/archive/newspro/news-archive-10-2002.html

re: why worry about ppc970......aros maybe, maybe macos X, other things non-amiga..et al

64bits not useful for you....well maybe not *now* but possibly for someone sometime in the near future
(if you build it, they will come....)
Might as well have *more* than necessary instead of less

[DethKnight]

of motherboard interests;....
here's something IBM emailed me today.

IBM Cu-11 Voltage Islands:
This presentation will provide an overview of voltage islands, a new capability first being made available in IBM Cu-11 ASICs. The capability allows groups of internal circuits, called islands, to be operated at different voltages or even powered down.

Plus they go on about APIs for PCI-X

[DethKnight]

@self (yeah why not)

when we are at Altivec..... then we are usu. on G4
when we are at PPC970....then we are usu. on VMX
 just to be nitpicky


how does an SMP setup compare I wonder ...theoretically anyway Head2Head

2 x (32 bit anything) with 2 x (PPC970@1.8ghz)