Re: MMX Technologie

Elijah L. Wright (elw@eckhart.wc.tntech.edu)
Sun, 23 Mar 1997 14:40:43 -0600 (CST)


> > > K6 is AMD's pentium-pro comeptitive chip, and it has MMX instructions.
> > Hmm. Are the instructions compatible all the way down-to-the-wire with
> > those from Intel?? Just a thought. Might be an easy way to build a
> > really fast, inexpensive machine.
> I would assume so ... I know a few people with Cyrix or AMD based
> Linux boxes ...

Forgot to mention that I was wondering about the MMX compatibility in
particular... and what about the cache sizes on the AMD chips? =)

Elijah