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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (20524)	11/25/2000 11:05:04 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) of 275872

This stuff about P6-optimized software is hooey. The original Pentium Pro had a botch in memory management that made it look bad in 16 bit code. There was no way to "optimize" around that one, though it got fixed in the PII. As far as new instructions go, the MMX instructions were retrofitted into the P5 before they went into the P6, for all the difference it made. Or maybe I'm wrong, T. How, exactly, did software get "optimized" for the P6? Enquiring minds want to know!

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