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To: David Lawrence who wrote (7683)	1/7/1997 9:28:00 PM
From: Pullin-GS	of 18024

**Off topic...I'm venting** This whole Intel push for MMX is a marketing ploy to stretch the x86 technology (14 years old now?) as far as they can. Sure it gives you 3D graphics functions+ built into the chip, but up to now this has been offloaded (mostly) onto dedicated grphics CPUs. There is a reason to offload: Performance**. MMX is a bad idea. Let a streamlined graphics processor handle it thank you. Let the CPU manage my applications and I/O for the other devices. If you want a stock deal (high risk), check out S3, MMX rumors/anouncements has been hammering them for quite some time now. I'm in (for a small gain). Sorry Intel, but MMX is just the software end of things. Can anyone here tell me what the refresh rate of MMX is capable of???? What is the color/pixel resolution? Will it interface to an RGB, or TTL monitor? All these things are determined by additional hardware, of which I'm sure Intel will gladly sell you for a small fee. Three frames/minute just is'nt going to cut it in the real world. Where is the video memory going to come from? The much SLOWER shared dram of the pool used by the applications/CPU? I'd put money on it (a little, not alot). ;-) I feel better now. PRB

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