Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Sep 1998 18:33:16 +0200 | From | Alexander Kjeldaas <> | Subject | Re: AMD SMP |
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On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 02:05:31PM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > MMX is a different story. IMO, Its a damn nice idea, badly > implemented (says me, because I can't use it, but clever people like > mingo I'm sure can). It probably only exists because Intel didn't > want third-party vendors shipping motherboards with DSPs... > > MMX2 or whatever its called (Kamatai?) looks like they design is a > tad more sane and might even be genuinely useful for games and other > stuff. >
Give me a CPU with a dedicated FPGA execution unit instead of the media-instruction rubbish any day.
astor
-- Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway http://www.guardian.no/
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