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Date:      Fri, 16 Jan 1998 22:38:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what does MMX mean?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.980116223422.7031A-100000@kalypso.cybercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <199801160146.RAA15220@bubble.didi.com>

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On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Satoshi Asami wrote:

:  * The normal integer and floating-point datapaths are, i believe,
:  * unaffected.
: 
: The MMX registers are aliases of regular FP registers.  (They did not
: want to add any new registers or flags -- so the OS doesn't need to be
: aware of new MMX chips and the applications can still use them.)  So
: it won't help if you want to do a lot of FP operations intermixed with
: MMX operations.

Is this true for the Pentium II as well?

K.S.




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