Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 21:50:27 +0000 From: Leigh Porter <leigh@wisper.net> To: Michael Richards <miker@scifair.acadiau.ca> Cc: michael dorin <mike@chaski.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MMX whats the story Message-ID: <34F5E3A3.35803F11@wisper.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980226131732.12274A-100000@scifair.acadiau.ca>
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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
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