From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 26 13:53:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA04674 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:53:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from genesis.wisper.net (genesis.wisper.net [193.164.160.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA04548 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:52:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leigh@wisper.net) Received: from wisper.net (unverified [193.164.160.221]) by genesis.wisper.net (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:00:30 +0000 Message-ID: <34F5E3A3.35803F11@wisper.net> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 21:50:27 +0000 From: Leigh Porter Organization: Wisper Bandwidth X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.31 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Richards CC: michael dorin , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MMX whats the story References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Richards wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, michael dorin wrote: > > > Its currently running a cyrix p166+ processor. No MMX. Assuming > > the motherboard will support the faster clock speed, can I upgrade to > > a 200Mhz something with MMX? Since you can't seem to find any non-mmx > > processors out there anymore. > > Well, I don't know if upgrading from a 166 to a 200 is going to make any > difference at all. mmx gives you some special floating point instructions > and I don't think that it will make much difference. I doubt that the > kernel would even use a pile of those instructions. I thought they had more cache, and some bigger rubber bands in thatturn the cogs faster? -- Leigh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message