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On 31 May 1996 15:38:45 GMT, 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. 

Since MMX allows for the same operation to be applied to 4 - 8bit
values in parallel, any operations performed on the pixels should be
as fast as 8-bit color (using 3 of the channels ...r,b,g), with the
exception of moving the data around (to the screen buffer, etc.)