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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (27780)	1/8/1998 10:03:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) of 1572580

Jim - Re: "Or does any old 3D game benefit?" All software has to be re-written (if it uses the new 3D instructions directly) to make use of these new instructions. If Microsoft incorporates the new 3D instructions in their DirectX/Direct 3D APIs, then existing software that uses DirectX/Direct 3D calls and libraries may benefit from these enhancements without being re-written. If the speed of existing MMX and FPU instructions is improved by AMD - due to pipelining and/or parallel execution, then existing Software will be speeded up due to these circuit enhancements. Paul

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