From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: MMX
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 19:49:25 +0100
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Ken writes:
>I think you could still use the MMX instructions, as I understand it the 
>instructions enable MMX machines to process them, and also machines 
>without MMX can still process them.

Not true. If the machine doesn't have MMX, these instructions cannot be
used. You can't really expect something to work even when the hardware
doesn't support it...


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