[SunRescue] help a guy run 2.6 on his 670MP

Joshua D. Boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed May 16 16:38:45 CDT 2001


On Wed, 16 May 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   It's what MMX should have been.  It's very impressive.  I still
> believe that this sort of thing simply doesn't belong in the central
> processor, but it's still impressive. :-)  For more information about
> VIS stuff, see http://www.sun.com/microelectronics/vis/.

It seems that every alternative to MMX is closer to what MMX should have
been.  Even SSE is an improvement, though not a very big one.  Sigh.  I
can't wait till I can afford a dual athon (or MIPS) machine.

--
Joshua Boyd




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