OT Linux (RE: [rescue] OT: Stuffed Proliant?)

[Ken Hansen]

MMX was not worthless, it was simply not worht the premium Intel got for the
chips when new... The MMX CPU had a larger on-chip L1 cache than non-MMX
CPUs. The usefulness of the new instructions was, of course, dubious, since
most software was still being compiled for 486-class machines...

It is interesting to note that non-MMX P/166 CPUs sell for more than MMX
P/166 CPUs - but this is due to the voltage requirements of the CPUs I
suspect, the MMX had special voltage requirements, and the non-MMX CPUs can
go in lots of old systems...

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua D Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: OT Linux (RE: [rescue] OT: Stuffed Proliant?)


> Then, there is the general worthlessness of MMX and SSE.  SSE2 might be
decent,
> but they crippled the P4 is other ways meaning that you have to rewrite
for
> SSE2 if you want decent performance at all.



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