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To: Paul Engel who wrote (35630)	8/7/1998 10:50:00 PM
From: Michael DaKota	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572369

Adobe hardly uses MMX. The functions witch make use of mmx are mainly interpolation related ones. (enlarging an image from smaller to big, smear and blur) None of those is used often. I noticed that a lot of main memory, and a cpu with big internal cache does the trick much better. Unfortunatly i bought an Abit TX5,with tx chipset, when it was "the best around", but i am now stuck with the shitty 64mb cacheable area, and i don't feel like dumping my 233 > 266 mmx. Sufficient for me , and i'll wait for ppro +mobo or a k6-2 400. But one thing is sure, i'll have myself an Asus Ali5 mobo, and dump that 64 meg extra sdram i have lying around in my old pII (is dusting somewhere in my room, the motherboard was instabile and had problems with my isdn and network adapter -abit lx6 & Soyo lx mobo + 233 pII) Greetz, michael da Kota

To: Paul Engel who wrote (35630)	8/8/1998 12:58:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572369

Paul, RE:"McMannis - Re: "Tell me Paul, in your line of work, investing...how many programs do you use that take advantage of MMX? " My line if work is not investing - I have no line of work since I don't need to work." But Paul, when you sued Terje Ostberg for sending you 25k e-mails you listed your occupation and being in the investment business. Did you purposely provide false information to the court? RE:"I use three programs regularly that employ MMX - Corel Draw 8 TextBridge 98 Adobe Photoshop 4/55" Good for you Paul...I use Corel and Photoshop myself and they run great on a Cyrix based computer. Did you ever upgrade to an MMX chip? Last I heard you were on a classic Pentium 166. Jim