Re: Intel Price Drop?

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From: Pizza
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 00:00

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On 29 Apr 1997 20:39:06 GMT, ccocsjo@acmey.gatech.edu (Who? Me?) spewed:


>using an MMX chip and a non-MMX Pentium (except the price you pay for
>it of course).  If you are running Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc then there
>is probably no point to buying an MMX chip at the present time.  I would
>suspect there will be a lot of programs that use MMX for Windows 95 soon,
>I am not sure about Windows NT.

Actually you're wrong.  The MMX chips have a larger on-board Cache (32K, I
believe) so they are about 5-10% faster than the equivalent P5 w/o MMX.

5-10% faster in EVERYTHING.
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Subject: Re: Intel Price Drop?
Date: 1997/04/30
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