Re: MMX-upgrading

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From: Steven C. Perkins
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 00:00

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AMD has supposedly re-engineered their MMX chip to minimize the
switching penalty.  It may be a better MMX chip than the Intel.  The
question now is whether it matches the FP performance of an Intel chip.

SCPerkins


regan wrote:
> 
> The one thing that no one has mentioned (or known about) is that
> one drawback of the MMX is that the MMX function of the CPU cannot be
> used at the same time of the floating point unit. 

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From: "Steven C. Perkins" <sperkins@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: MMX-upgrading
Date: 1997/02/17
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