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terry lin (tlin@cyber1.servtech.com) 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?

I would expect MMX support would be part of MS DirectX stuff,
so anything using Direct3D would automatically take advantage
of MMX.   No fuss transparent accelleration.

Actually, everything will be obsolete in a year :(.
I expect that Intel's Advanced Graphis memory bus combined with
faster memory bus speeds combined with newer ram technology will
mean yet another round of throwing away hardware if you want 
the latest, faster stuff.