Re: AOL, Thank You

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From: David Kastrup
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:00

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"Larry Elmore" <ljelmore@montana.campus.mci.net> writes:

> Dan DeClerck wrote in message <366D7988.A5B2EC9B@cig.mot.com>...
> >Larry Elmore wrote:
> >>
> >> Pray tell, what technologies and innovations has Microsoft stifled?
> >
> >Intel's Native Signal Processing (NSP) which puts DSP like functions in
> >the cores of CPU's.
> 
> You mean it wasn't killed just because it's a dopey idea that isn't needed
> or even wanted?

It was killed because it was an idea not wanted by Microsoft.
Microsoft threatened not to support the MMX extensions of Intel in
their OSs if Intel further pursued the project.  So Intel dropped it.
At least that is the story told at the trials by Intel.

The motivation seems clear to me:  if Intel had continued, any
operating system or software vendor could have fully supported all the
MMX processing easily.  Now that Intel has had to drop NSP support,
everybody has to implement his own code for using MMX and other
stuff.  And that means that money does make a bit more of a difference
for developers (having to develop more).

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From: David Kastrup <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject: Re: AOL, Thank You
Date: 1998/12/15
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