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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (43140)	12/10/1998 1:19:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1580613

Re: "It's kind of hard to have KNI-enabled software already out there when Katmai hasn't even been released yet." Sorry, I just post stuff like that to harass Paul--the way he does with everyone else on the thread (for example with the MSFT timing loop bug), but in reverse. Of course I know better, just like he does, but it's fun anyway. Look how worked up he got: Message 6774535 Funny thing is compiler tools don't necessarily add up to software support anyway, so you gotta wonder why he attached that article to his post. <GGG> And I agree with you about KNI in the absense of DX7. All other things remaining equal, an application using native KNI instructions would show much greater performance without DX7 than anapplication which uses DX7 without native KNI instructions. The problem I think that Intel will have is that it will have all sorts of nice sortware lined up behind KNI at the intro, but it will be niche market stuff (e.g. photo editing, voice recognition, etc.). The games that support Katmai will come later, so KNI's benfits won't be felt in mainstream markets until Q3-Q4 1999 at best. Just my 2 cents. Kevin