hard-sector 5 1/4 disk

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Mon Nov 5 08:18:35 2001

At 07:49 PM 11/4/01 -0800, Cameron wrote:
>> Well, I'd have to say that, since the performance and reliability haven't
>> improved since back in the '80's, the Apple was not designed for serious
use,
>
>I beg to differ. An 867MHz G4 cleans the floor with all but the newest 2.0GHz
>P4s, and the architecture is so compelling that people like id's John Carmack
>are jumping on the bandwagon (he's one of Darwin's developers, the OS behind
>OS X). The days of the "poor Performas" are long gone.

What I would like to see is a LAPACK library that makes full use of the G4's
vector processing capability--it should bring any pentium of any speed to
its knees in numerical linear algebra applications. Is there any such beast
around? Of the non-commercial variety?

carlos.


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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Mon Nov 05 2001 - 08:18:35 GMT