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SpeedRacer · Oct 25, 2001, 06:42 AM

This is somewhat old news by now, what do folks think? Will the next Photoshop bake-off be featuring Athlons @ 1.5gHz?

Transitive Technologies will demonstrate PowerPC based applications running at well over 1+ GHz equivalent PowerPC speeds on a 1.4 GHz AMD Athlon processor today at the Microprocessor Forum. In the company's demonstration, a PC will be running an X86 Linux distribution, and PowerPC compiled Linux applications are running using Transitive's Dynamite code morphing engine.

Transitive to demonstrate a virtual 1+ GHz PowerPC

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Cipher13 · Oct 25, 2001, 08:12 AM

Apple will find some way (firmware, ROMs, etc) to stop the MacOS from being run this way... but, there are ways around such things.

If I can run the MacOS and all apps with full compatibility on an Athlon... I'll be the first in line.

sek929 · Oct 25, 2001, 08:32 AM

Originally posted by Cipher13:
<STRONG>Apple will find some way (firmware, ROMs, etc) to stop the MacOS from being run this way... but, there are ways around such things.

If I can run the MacOS and all apps with full compatibility on an Athlon... I'll be the first in line.</STRONG>

And I'll be right behind you Ciph.........

Athlon and G4? **Drool**

superlarry · Oct 25, 2001, 09:47 AM

i've heard it rumored that Athlon is being approached as a potential producer of the G5.. (mosr.com, cite reliability as you please)