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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (69241)	8/19/1999 2:33:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573222

<trying to blame Intel for AMD's tweaking of the FutureMark DLL.> "Tweaking"? It was clearly stated everywhere that the 3D kernel DLL was OTIMIZED for AMD Athlon instructions, with permission of the benchmark vendor. Now for some reason they are crying wolf. And what that reason would be when Pee-III has lost in every benchmark including FutureMarks? It is utter nonsense to demonstrate 3D capabilities of a processor without using instructions that were designed specifically for 3D rendering. Interestingly, the FutureMark guys stated that "No other CPU manufacturers have been given a chance to make optimizations." However, they failed to state what kind of "optimization" and compiler was used in first place to generate the original DLLs. Again, do you think they used a logarithmic ruler commands to write their 3D-rendering code? Look, 99/03/08: "Futuremark Corporation Releases 3DMark? 99 MAX - The only benchmark that objectively measures both Intel Pentium III SIMD and AMD 3DNow! technology" Strangely enough, all previous press releases have mysteriously disappeared from their web: futuremark.com futuremark.com Go figure.