Author Topic: PixInsight 1.6.1 - Breaking compatibility with old 32-bit processors  (Read 6101 times)

Offline Juan Conejero

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Hi All,

The next version of PixInsight requires at least SSE2 processor instruction support for all 32-bit versions. This rules out old Intel and AMD processors, such as Pentium 3 and pre-Athlon64, which have been supported unofficially in previous versions. Officially, the minimum supported processor is Intel Pentium 4 since the first release of PixInsight standard --see the system requirements page.

Note that this change applies only to Linux and Windows versions, since on Mac OS X PixInsight already uses SSE3 and SSE4 instructions.

If this is a stopping problem for some users, I can see a way to compile a special 32-bit version of PixInsight without SSE instructions.
Juan Conejero
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Offline Cheyenne

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Hmmm breaking stuff are we???


What do we get in exchange <grin>
Cheyenne Wills
Takahashi 130 TOA
Losmandy G11
SBIG STF8300M
Canon 20Da
SBIG ST-i + openPHD for autoguiding

Offline Carlos Milovic

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Juan, you know I'll need one of those ;)
Regards,

Carlos Milovic F.
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