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SubjectRe: MMX Technologie
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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