Re: MMX-upgrading

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From: egg123
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:00

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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. So any of your
> games or other programes that use the MMX and uses the floating point
> unit will be slowed down, because the two are constantly switching
> back and forth between one another. Although the Pentium Pro can get
> around this problem because it's so fast at switching back and forth
> that there isn't a slow down. Just a little unknown piece of information
> about the chip that is being kept silent by Intel. So I wouldn't spend
> the money.

Yes, but don't you think that the software developer's making new MMX
software, are also aware of this, and would program differently because
of it.

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From: egg123 <egg123@prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: MMX-upgrading
Date: 1997/02/18
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