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Re: mplayer packages



On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Guido Guenther wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:15:41AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > Any particular reason to have G4 as minimum support level? Why not G3?
> I was under the impression that the G3 doesn't have altivec.
> Simdtech.org/altivec says:
> 
> $ Motorola has shipped two microprocessor generations with AltiVec inside.
> $ Motorola calls these generations G4 and G4+. Apple uses processors with
> $ the G4+ core, but Apple does not use the G4+ moniker. Mercury Computer
> $ ...
> 
> So, are there G3s with altivec? If so could you list which ones?

Why CPUs with Altivec as a minimum support level?

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Martin-Éric Racine
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