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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.icm.edu.pl!uw.edu.pl!news.nask.pl!01-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!02-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!news.ecrc.de!news.space.net!news.camelot.de!news.hannibal.camelot.de!usenet From: os@hannibal.camelot.de (Oliver Scheel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Intel MMX compatibility? Date: 16 Jan 1997 18:11:39 GMT Organization: Hannibal Online Lines: 14 Message-ID: <5blr0r$bis@hannibal.camelot.de> References: <32DE440B.41C67EA6@jnet.vi> NNTP-Posting-Host: hannibal.camelot.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.7 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34158 > I am about to order 2 new P5-200 machines to run FreeBSD. Is there any > experience out there in using the new MMX technology CPUs with FreeBSD? Forget that MMX fake. It's expensive, you only get a performance plus if you're programmig in assembly language and you can't use the MMX and the FPU simultaneously, because MMX uses the FPU registers... Get a PPro! That's the better choice! Oliver -- *** Oliver Scheel, Zenettistr. 45a, D-80337 Muenchen, Germany *** *** email: os@hannibal.camelot.de http://www.camelot.de/~os/ ***