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Article #237Re: AOL, Thank You
From: Thomas Womack
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 00:00
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In gnu.misc.discuss Mark Baker <mark@aziraphale.demon.co.uk> wrote: : In article <75gbud$b0c$1@netra.msu.montana.edu>, : "Larry Elmore" <ljelmore@montana.campus.mci.net> writes: : > That makes sense, but I still don't see why Intel didn't tell MS to go jump : > into a lake and implement NSP anyway, if it was so good. If MS didn't : > support it, it would only hurt MS... : However, a processor with NSP would have cost a lot to develop, and would : have been more expensive to buy. They wouldn't have sold many if it wasn't : supported by Windows. Um, you can't buy a processor without NSP at the moment. I'm pretty sure NSP is what became MMX, and that the new Katmai instructions will produce an even better platform for native signal processing. Tom
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 1138ec,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gid1138ec,public From: Thomas Womack <mert0236@sable.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Re: AOL, Thank You Date: 1998/12/21 Message-ID: <75mkn4$h7c$1@news.ox.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 424653807 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <etUZ7jAG#GA.256@upnetnews03> <73u2bf$7uc$1@netra.msu.montana.edu> <M3mPvLdzxX1t-pn2-NxV61jWnecSM@tp244-10.dialup.seed.net.tw> <748ps0$drf$1@netra.msu.montana.edu> <M3mPvLdzxX1t-pn2-drGT46vq4d8I@tp246-218.dialup.seed.net.tw> <749ujm$pc0$1@netra.msu.montana.edu> <366D7988.A5B2EC9B@cig.mot.com> <753pdq$ba5$1@netra.msu.montana.edu> <m2vhjd3gwg.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <75gbud$b0c$1@netra.msu.montana.edu> <75jacv$tnh$1@aziraphale.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@ox.ac.uk X-Trace: news.ox.ac.uk 914282020 17644 163.1.2.4 (21 Dec 1998 23:13:40 GMT) Organization: Oxford University, England Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Dec 1998 23:13:40 GMT Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc