On Mon, 02 Nov 1998 11:46:46 +0100, Markus Becker 
	<bec### [at] zessuni-siegende> wrote:
>Ronald L. Parker wrote:
>> 
>> Actually, 3DNow could help POV-Ray in a few places.  3DNow is just
>> floating point operations on more than one operand at a time, it's not
>> hardware acceleration of triangle drawing as found on a video card.
>
>That's not quite right. It's a SIMD architecture (Single Instruction,
>Multiple, Data) that is similar to the MMX by Intel. It's right
>that you can handle several floats at once, but with a limited
>precision.

So what about what I said is inaccurate?  ISTR that at least the 
2-operand form allows you to work with two 32-bit floats, which 
are equivalent in precision to the floats that are used with, for 
example, colours.  And overriding the colour functions, such as 
adding, scaling, and inverse-scaling colours, might not be such 
a difficult task.  However, again, I don't think one would gain 
much for one's labour.

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