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To: gnuman who wrote (24999)	10/17/1997 9:03:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	of 186894

I'm also concerned about Pentium II. What does it offer that the MMX device doesn't provide? I don't know if you meant that as a literal question, but since you ask... Mainly the PII with AGP (accelerated graphics port) offers a 66MHz bus to the processor, vs the 33MHz PCI bus. Additionally, AGP offers a direct 66MHz bus to main memory. Therefore, software written to take advantage of AGP graphics cards are not limited by the amount of memory on the graphics board, and can use main RAM for rendering complex graphics. This feature will hugely speed up rendering operations for AutoCad users. I think it's safe to say that Auto Desk will incorporate AGP into future versions of AutoCad. Then there are game developers and game players. Niche markets? Maybe. Think back to when MMX was introduced. People said, "but there are none or very few software offerings that take advantage of it, and it will take some time before MMX enabled software is plentiful". Yet people went gung-ho for MMX. "Well, business users won't have any use for MMX", people said. What happened? Business users went gung-ho for MMX, even faster than Intel anticipated. The first tests of AGP graphics cards show huge performance gains on AGP-enabled software tests by PC Magazine. I for one will want a PII with AGP. DK

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