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To: Paul Engel who wrote (47583)1/27/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1580820
 
Re: "You tell me what the Killer App is for 3DNOW and I'll tell you what the KNI killer app is."

3DNow bridged the clock-for-clock performance gap between K6 and PII cores on most popular games. It's implementation was cheaper in terms of silicon real estate than pipelining the FPU. Mission accomplished.

Kevin