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9521: [MUD-Dev] Re: processors

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From: Wes Connell <wconnell@eden.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:13:22 -0600 (CST)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, John Bertoglio wrote:

> The Xeon has the full MMX extension set. While this serves little positive
> purpose on a conventional server, it doesn't hurt either.
> 

I heard or read somewhere that there have been OS/Apps that can be or are
optimized to use the MMX registers to help improve multitasking and such.
Anyone heard about this? I think maybe the rc5 client thing does it...not
sure. 

Wes!
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