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To: Mark Cobey who wrote (8442)	1/19/1997 2:41:00 PM
From: Marshall	of 18024

Mark, the additional MMX instructions will allow a simple modem function to be implemented by the processor, but at what price to the overall performance of the system? The reason for peripheral cards has generally been to allow the CPU to concentrate on what it does best, and asking it to perform additional repetitive tasks only slows down the other things it needs to be doing at the time. Granted, it doesn't take all the power of a Pentium Pro to surf the internet, but that will be changing as the access bandwidth and multimedia content increase. Remember that Intel wants each new processor family to appear as an improvement in speed over the last ones, otherwise they somewhat lose their case in advertising them as an attractive upgrade. Here are a few excellent posts from the S3 thread that go into the MMX: techstocks.com techstocks.com techstocks.com techstocks.com And here's an article that mentions why we may need all the processing power we can get if hybrid internet access pans out in a big way. It is long, but it is excellent reading: pathfinder.com@@X4Tg0AQAP3FfqqL3/fortune/magazine/1996/960708/gat.html

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