Re: AMD SMP

Alexander Kjeldaas (astor@guardian.no)
Mon, 7 Sep 1998 18:33:16 +0200


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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