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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (67875)8/6/1999 8:57:00 PM
From: Steve Porter  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1575422
 
Watsonyouth:

Well I'm not sure IBM blundered by not embracing altivec. The problem wtih altivec is it has caused no end of design problems. Remember die size doesn't mean a damned thing if the product dosen't work correctly. I mean I could design a 1mm1 cpu.. it just wouldn't do much.. ;)

Steve