🚀 go-pugleaf

craig.procter@dsto.defence.gov.au wrote:

>In article <DrtwE0.2AF@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.ATTGIS.COM>  (dexter) writes:
>>
>>==========Falchion, 5/19/96==========
>>Any reasonable estimates when a pentium pro system
>>will be affordable? ie. around the same price or slightly
>>above the current price of a similar P166 system?
>>
>>I'm thinking about getting a P166 in the next 2 months or maybe
>>hanging on until December and getting a Pentium Pro. 
>>
>>
>bets if you wait until then for a couple of reasons.
>
>1) the Pentium Pro will be more affordable
>
>2) main reason - the first lot of MMX CPU's will have
>appeared by then, giving a BIG boost in performance.
>
>For those not in the know of what MMX is, best check
>out the Intel site, as I couldn't be bothered going 
>into it in depth here.

As for me, I decided to buy P5 now (just wait for a few weeks for
P5-200) and don't  bother about MMX AT ALL. Because the software
support for MMX is MUCH more important than hardware implementation.
Just like P5's and P6's new operands - they probably could speed up
some applications, but nobody use them just not to do their code not
capable of running on 486, P5 clones or something else. So even when
MMX processors will be available, you won't be able to use their
features - software companies shouldn't make software that wont work
on 99% processors. It's a waste of money for them. And this situation
is going to continue for a couple of years. IMHO, of course.
Sorry for poor English.
BYE.
Yours, 
LodeRunner. E-mail: minister@rinet.ru