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To: soup who wrote (13145)5/8/1998 1:24:00 AM
From: Jeff Hayden  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 213177
 
Soup, What kind of Mac will AltiVec Make? I'm sure you've checked out:

news.com

and

mot.com (particularly the white paper)

This new PowerPC chip with the AltiVec processor will redefine computing. Its parallel and cross-parallel cruncher will put amazing capability into the Mac - about next fall - I'd expect. Voice recognition, image recognition, handwriting recognition, very high speed 3D modeling, rendering and animation, raster image processing, and etc., and etc. all will be possible without any additional accelerators. Will the Macs of the future have mind-boggling capability at $1000 or so?

Jeff