[ale] OT: Mac OS X x86 vmware image floating on bittorrent

Pat Regan thehead at patshead.com
Thu Dec 29 17:38:13 EST 2005


Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:33 -0500, Pat Regan wrote:
> 
>> If OSX is relying on any opcodes that exist on Intel CPUs and not on AMD
>> it would likely fail to run.
>> 
> 
> This would explain it.  OSX requires SSE3.  And I do not think the
> Athalon has that.  That sucks because all I own here is AMD.  I like
> AMD :)

Opterons and Athlon 64s support SSE3, don't they?  How new is SSE3?
Your problem isn't that you have an AMD CPU, the problem is the age of
your CPU :p.

Pat
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