Hello ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Brandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 5:40 PM Subject: Re: AMD Processor
> Stephan Hachinger wrote: > > > Linux runs on all i80386 compatible microprocessors. So it also runs on a > > AMD K6-2. But I don't know if any Linux application or lib will use the > > 3DNow! extension. But this isn't very > > actually the Distributed.net-Client, linux-quake3 and some > opengl-drivers use AMDs 3Dnow and Intels SSE. I guess there is not much > use for those instructions anywhere else? > > Christian Brandt I guess so, too. Perhaps in a mp3 encoder (I think there's the gogo encoder - a derivative of lame optimized for 3dnow!). Regards, Stephan Hachinger
