[chimera-dev] Mac Radeon 9000

[Thomas Goddard]

  The Mac system crash with Radeon 9000 graphics have been fixed in a
Mac OS 10.2.5 prerelease (build 6L14).

  The Chimera surface/mesh rendering benchmark scores for the Radeon 9000
were the second highest measured, beat only by the Mac GeForce 4 Ti.
I tried rotating large models by hand to check that the benchmark utility
is not being fooled.  They are correct.  As I mentioned before, CPU bound
tasks like computing surfaces are significantly slower on the Mac than on
x86 hardware.

   Tom