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To: Yogi - Paul who wrote (889)	9/15/1998 11:20:00 PM
From: Yogi - Paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2025

Thread, Intel unveils home networking chip, focus on networking biz.yahoo.com Tut Systems tutsys.com - Home Phoneline Networking Alliance selects Tut's HomeRun(TM) as the standard for affordable, "no new wires" networking - - HomeRun allows for high-speed data throughput and simultaneous phone use - Home networking, as a concept, seems to be getting up a little momentum. Yogi

To: Yogi - Paul who wrote (889)	9/17/1998 7:11:00 AM
From: Pierre-X	Respond to of 2025

You can find some info about Katmai here: tomshardware.com Some significant excerpts for the link challenged <g>: * 70 new instructions ... mainly designed to enhance 3D gaming * SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) operations on single precision floating point values, one of the most important things for 3D game computing * Introduction of a new separate processor state or mode ... will require an extension to the operating system, Intel has a patch for Windows98 already available and Windows NT5 will support this new mode by default. * concurrent use of either SIMD-FP and MMX or SIMD-FP and IA-FP double precision floating point code * Those features will improve 3D gaming significantly, but processing of audio (e.g. speech recognition, surround sound, AC3), physical models and imaging are also supposed to benefit from KNI by a large amount. * New Memory Streaming Architecture ... can improve MPEG2 encoding and decoding ... Intel expects performance improvements of 5 to 20% due to the new memory-streaming feature. --- Since my edits necessarily induce a bias, I encourage you to read the original article at the link. Tom's English has gotten better, thankfully, and the piece is informative to both nerds and laymen. God bless, PX