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tlin@cyber1.servtech.com (terry lin) wrote:

>Dmitriy Veremeev (minister@rinet.ru) wrote:
>: 
>: And, still there are very many programs that better use FPU, but can't
>: just for case of CPU w/o FPU or with incompatible one.. So the same
>: will be with MMX - there will be 5-7 applications supported it -
>: probably XING, maybe something like Photoshop, etc... But only a few!
>
>How about games?  Doesn't MMX help greatly with 24-bit color?  Mark Rein
>of Epic Megagames posted constantly in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action that
>MMX will allow for smooth 24-bit color games in 640x480. 
>
>As a pretty frequent gamer I am concerned that a Pentium purchased now,
>regarldess of how many Mhz, will be obsolete in a year.
>
>Anyone have more opinions on this?

Hm.. What about games... Too many times I've heard from developers
"yes, we are making new products for your new XYZ OS, it will be
available in the near future, just wait for 2-3 month for game boost 
under XYZ OS". XYZ is Win 3.11,  Win 95, OS/2, etc, etc... 
What I see is DOS games w/o even FPU usage... The same situation does
exist in all the computer things. Software support is the biggest
problem for EVERY product, even if this product comes from Intel. 
Software companies (with specific exeptions), IMHO, cant afford
spending money on developing product that will be able to run at
0.001% of PCs to make it even 400% faster. It is not worth. 
Software support will appear only by the time when MMX will be at
least in 20-30% PCs. Before that, MMX support is going to be
implemented only in specific software like Photoshop or Xing or
something like this. That's my opinion.
We will see.
BYE.
Yours, 
LodeRunner (Dmitry Veremeev). E-mail: minister@rinet.ru