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  Re: POV-Ray needs to support the K6-2 Processor.  
From: Jason Peacock
Date: 15 Aug 1998 02:45:56
Message: <35D5203C.DAD1A07E@u.washington.edu>
Whoa dude.  My apologies.  I guess <g> I was running off old data/too
little reading.

thanks for filling in the gaps,
jason.


> 
> First you insult me, then you spread lies? Get this and get this
> straight: 3D-Now and also the Katmai instruction set comming from Intel
> are NOT graphics-rendering tools. They are a SIMD path for floating
> point math. (Single Instruction, multiple data) end specially
> optimized for doing matrix transforms, which POV-Ray does a lot of.
> Please don't say you _know_ when you're only guessing.
> 
> Intel's Katmai will probably be more useful for POV-Ray as it will support
> 64bit floats, 3D-Now! is 32bit.
> 
> --
> A penny for your thoughts.
> Mine are more expensive.


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