From: "Andrew Crabtree" <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: MMX
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 15:49:57 -0700
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Ken wrote in message ...
>I read in Computing or Computer Weekly magazine, recently, that intel
>were scrapping the MMX range of chips.
I think you have that backwards.  They are stopping production of all
*non*-mmx chips.  I think they have already stopped making non-mmx pentiums,
and are still making the pentium pro (non-mmx) until the pentium2-Xeon (mmx)
comes out in the fall.

>I have no idea what Cyrix or AMD are planning on doing though!

The both still have mmx support.  AMD is releasing (released) their new
floating point mmx instructions this month or next month.  Intel will have
floating point mmx q1 next year.

>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.  Only MMX machines can run mmx instructions.  Its the same as
trying to run FPU code on a 386 without a math-coprocessor.