On 13 Apr 98 18:10:22 GMT, in linux.debian.user Ossama Othman wrote: >That's not what I recall. I recall that MMX stood for "Multi Media >eXtensions," too. However, I couldn't find anything on the Intel site >about what it stood for. Perhaps "MMX" really is a PR thing. :)
MMX does, according to popular opinion, stand for "Multi Media eXtensions". However, Intel wouldn't have been able to trademark that (for a reason that is beyond me), and tried to make everyone believe that MMX was just a random collection of letters, which can be a trademark. The courts didn't buy into this, and so Intel's competitors were allowed to use MMX on their own chips. If I remember correctly... Rob Wilderspin. -- "But I need it to crash once every few days - reboots are the only chance I get to sleep..." ----------------------= (send replies to rob@) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
