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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (52651)	8/27/2001 4:36:03 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

RE:"But I don't normally see applications that actually have 3DNow instructions built in. The vast majority (of applications with optimizations) use SSE/SSE-2 instructions" This all goes back to Intels superior ability to lead the benchmarking standards around like a bull with a bull ring in it's nose. Remember MMX? Still ain't a lot of software for that...and at the time..Intel used it as a great marketing tool. This SSE2 stuff appears like a few small tangents...but Intel wants you to think that it works on the installed software base. And, I don't encode movies... I'll take the processor with the raw processing power, not the one with the "tricks"...thank you... Jim