From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 14 15:57:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18543 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:57:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18340 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:56:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id PAA15882 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma015880; Wed Jan 14 15:55:09 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id PAA05051 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:55:09 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199801142355.PAA05051@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: what does MMX mean? To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:55:09 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk What, exactly, does MMX mean? Does it mean the processor has NEW instructions for DSP type operations? Does it speed up EXISTING instructions? Integer or floating point (or both)? Thanks, -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com