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Posted by Luise (66.154.15.128) on September 08, 2004 at 15:49:28:
In Reply to: Re: posted by Helene on September 08, 2004 at 15:49:28:
MMX came out in 1996, and was Intels attempt to improve the performance of the x86 core on media processing. By adding a special functional unit to the CPU, each eight 64bit floating point registers could be split into four sixteen bit integer registers, or two thirty two bit registers.