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To: dumbmoney who wrote (36515)	8/30/1998 12:18:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1583707

Supporting SIMD double precision would be idiotic, since 3-D apps don't use double precision and it would slow things down massively (not to mention the chip area) I find this argument about single vs. double precision similar to some past arguments: 1. No program will ever need more than a 64K segment size. 2. No one will ever need a disk larger than 20MB. 3. No one will ever need or be able to afford more than 4MB dram. When high performance double precision math is available, the software will quickly follow. 3D rendering on computers is still at a very primitive stage. Ten years from now we will laugh at the clunky graphics we put up with in the 90's. Scumbria