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Article #2044Re: MMX-upgrading
From: Gordon Foreman
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 00:00
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Michele Chubirka wrote: > > Okay, > > Will someone explain, (for a layman) what an MMX chip is? I've > started to hear about it, but know nothing about it and I'm NOT a > programmer. > > Michele Michele, MMX is Intel's new enhancement to the Pentium and soon the Pentium Pro CPUs. Originally, MMX stood for Multimedia Extensions, but then Intel backtracked and said that it doesn't stand for anything; it is just a trademarked acronym. Regardless, MMX CPUs are supposed to handle multimedia and live video much more smoothly than non-MMX CPUs. [Of course, the applications have to be written to use MMX.] If you are looking at buying a system in the near future, then you probably want to go ahead and get an MMX system. If you wait until summer or later, you may not have any choice. I hope this helps. -- Gordon Foreman - Author/PC Buyer's Handbook gforeman@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~gforeman/small.html
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ffec8,de6d92d1006e2262 X-Google-Attributes: gidffec8,public X-Google-Thread: f8e37,de6d92d1006e2262 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8e37,public X-Google-Thread: 106c00,de6d92d1006e2262 X-Google-Attributes: gid106c00,public X-Google-Thread: 112149,de6d92d1006e2262 X-Google-Attributes: gid112149,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,de6d92d1006e2262 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,de6d92d1006e2262 X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: 10265e,de6d92d1006e2262 X-Google-Attributes: gid10265e,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,de6d92d1006e2262 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public From: Gordon Foreman <gforeman@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Re: MMX-upgrading Date: 1997/02/21 Message-ID: <330E15E5.36F5@ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 220494140 References: <01bc0e20$34773060$7d0002c3@ripper> <32EFAB7B.E5@pagesz.net> <01bc0ed2$8a1b57a0$2a262095@KAUFFMAM.vitro.com> <32F6EE46.7622@oce.nl> <Pine.SUN.3.91.970211095516.18020A-100000@chris> <5dqoj2$9dg@samba.rahul.net> <5dscgh$dtl@pion.sci.kun.nl> <5dvv31$fu0$1@carrera.intergate.bc.ca> <33088c15.2024456@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <01bc1ea2$5c345500$50bd6bcc@chapio.wolfe.net> <330ddb30.4702212@news.erols.com> To: Michele Chubirka <animat@erols.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Home X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Feb 21 2:38:33 PM CST 1997 Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc-hardware X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; U)