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echo: apogee
to: CHARLES FOSTER
from: PAAVO MKEL
date: 1996-08-28 13:39:00
subject: p6/mmx

>> COuld you explain to me what a p6/mmx is thanks :-)
>  P6 is a Pentium Pro processor.  MMX is an instruction set by Intel
>  that allows a processor to do 4 math operations in a single instruction.
>  What it means for Epic's game Unreal, is that you could play in 24 bit
>  color with 44KHz sound.  I don't know yet if MMX is going to be
>  incorporated in P6 systems as well as P5 systems yet, but hopefully so.
       Is this 'mmx' some new technology? Can it ever be implented to P5 
system
       somehow?
       From your message I get the picture that old programs written normally
       (without that MMX operation used, that is), so that programs would 
ave
       to be re-written to take advance of this operation?
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