Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Mar 1997 17:06:52 -0500 (EST) | From | "Seth M. Landsman" <> | Subject | Re: MMX Technologie |
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On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Elijah L. Wright wrote:
> > > > > K6 is AMD's pentium-pro comeptitive chip, and it has MMX instructions. > > > Hmm. Are the instructions compatible all the way down-to-the-wire with > > > those from Intel?? Just a thought. Might be an easy way to build a > > > really fast, inexpensive machine. > > I would assume so ... I know a few people with Cyrix or AMD based > > Linux boxes ... > > Forgot to mention that I was wondering about the MMX compatibility in > particular... and what about the cache sizes on the AMD chips? =)
This is a different issue. I would suggest taking a look at the AMD web site (www.amd.com, I believe).
-Seth
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