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Soooo..Hows OS4 doing?
« on: November 17, 2004, 01:42:25 AM »
With all the bad news about MOS and me not keeping up with OS4..I'm wondering how its going over there? (any flames towards A1/OS4 fans = ban).

Post up.. I wanna hear some good news.


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Re: Soooo..Hows OS4 doing?
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2004, 01:48:27 AM »
you wont be..thats just for the hardcore fans who cause problems :)

I'm sure SOMETHING good is happening over there.. I havent really kept up with it. (Nor MOS for that matter, just every once in a while I'll lurk @ MZ).
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Re: Soooo..Hows OS4 doing?
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2004, 11:32:02 AM »
I dont know if I understand this right.. so if OS4 has Altivec support..does that make the operating system run faster or "fpu" type activities faster?  I know on MOS there was some hoopla about Altivec support going to be added and when it will stuff will work faster.


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Re: Soooo..Hows OS4 doing?
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2004, 02:39:53 AM »
Well..not necessarily..just in general how  programming efforts are going... How about commercial support? Any new games being developed for it?
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