Re: RE: TI-H: risc

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Subject: Re: RE: TI-H: risc
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 21:41:58 -0900
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Intel created MMX over their existing CISC base.  The MMX set is RISC in
general, but the PPC already has graphics commands to do what MMX does, and
it does it faster.

MMX is realy just a selling point for computers.  It realy didn't add that
much power to the processors, just made a new set of programs that would
make you upgrade...

PPC RISC doesn't take more clock cycles to do the same thing.  It would
take more instruction cycles if at all.


>Whatever... the point was that RISC would take more clocks to accomplish an
>MMX command, unless the RISC has a mirror command, which I'm sure the (now
>old?) IBM/Motorola team took into consideration... its all about $, so you
>know...

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