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From: lintux AT dds DOT nl (Wilmer van der Gaast)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: MMX emulator ?
Date: 2 Feb 2000 16:21:58 GMT
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On 2 Feb 2000 13:04:50 GMT, Pierre Muller wrote:
>   I was wondering if anyone ever thought or tried to write
> a MMX emulator for DJGPP!
> 
>   There seems to be one existing for Linux at
> 
> http://www-sop.inria.fr/prisme/personnel/pion/progs/mmx-emu/
> 
>   Looking at the source code it seems not totally impossible to
> translate this to DJGPP but I am not a C expert and 
> I surely wouldn't like to duplicate the work if someone already worked
> on this field !
Might be an idea, but how many DOS-based programs use MMX? And as you
possibly know, the emulator doesn't accellerate the system, but it
allows you to run MMX-only software on a non-MMX system.

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