From: "Sly" <sly AT aussie DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Loop unrolling: Don't bother
Date: 4 Mar 1997 03:21:49 GMT
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Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA> wrote in article
<5fdkoh$m0b AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca>...
> 
> Benjamin D Chambers (chambersb AT juno DOT com) writes:
> 
> [MMX this, MMX that]
> 
> What the hell is MMX?
> 
> I've even seen it in some computer ads. "Pentium 166 with MMX" &c
> 

MMX is MultiMedia eXtensions in the new range of Pentium processors. 
Supposed to make any graphics intensive software (including games) go a
whole lot faster.  But I'm not sure how this will affect users of non-MMX
processors.  Will MMX code run on the lower processors?  Or will
programmers have to write two sets of code, MMX-enabled and MMX-disabled?

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TTFN
Sly (Steve)