Re: MMX (was Re: when will pentium pro be affordable?)

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From: terry lin
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 00:00

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Dmitriy Veremeev (minister@rinet.ru) wrote:
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: 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?

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Subject: Re: MMX  (was Re: when will pentium pro be affordable?)
Date: 1996/05/31
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