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To: Elmer who wrote (48169)2/2/1999 10:52:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571874
 
Elmer,

Scumbria, don't you think they should have been talking about MegaFlops or GigaFlops?

They said "up to three MMX SIMD instructions per cycle" which makes perfect sense.

3 instructions/cycle * 500,000,000 cycles/second = 1.5 GFLOPS.

Sorry, 15 minutes is up.

Scumbria