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To: Petz who wrote (45559)	1/12/1999 2:55:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573439

Petz - re: " For KNI, this means either an optimized version of DirecX (6.1 or later), " Thanks for pointing this out. I hope Kevin Spurway and Maxwell and Kash will take note of this ! Paul

To: Petz who wrote (45559)	1/12/1999 9:53:00 AM
From: Scot	Respond to of 1573439

<<<Notice that we say that KNI is technically superior to 3DNow!. In practice, it's a different story. The Katmai CPU doesn't fully exploit the potential of the KNI extensions. To take full advantage of KNI, Intel would have to redesign the CPU's floating-point unit (FPU) to double the width of its pipelines [to 128 bits], and that would delay the chip's debut. So Intel compromised: Katmai has the same FPU as any other P6 chip and uses only half the capacity of KNI." [an oversimplification,but essentially true]>>> John, Thanks for the article! And Intel is counting on KNI to distinguish the celeron from the Pee III. The commoditization will continue! -Scot

To: Petz who wrote (45559)	1/12/1999 11:22:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573439

This is serious: OSes need modification to use KNI! Every OS KERNEL needs modification!!!! (to add into EVERY SYSTEM SUBROUTINE and INTERRUPT ROUTINE a couple of PUSHes and POPs!!!) This is COOL!!! "The article then explains that the OS must be modified to save the new wide registers on every context switch... "Stay posted for information on which OSes fully support KNI's new registers." This is the price for adding "new registers". I wonder how soon all OSes will be modified...