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Subject: Re: Fritz7 (No MMX)

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 11:00:40 05/17/02

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On May 17, 2002 at 09:41:13, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On May 17, 2002 at 04:20:33, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On May 16, 2002 at 14:02:15, Terry McCracken wrote:
>>
>>>Good question! I don't know the answer either! Then again I don't know why they
>>>put out Fritz 7(No MMX) in the first place?
>>
>>So it would work on systems without MMX support...
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>What? What systems are those? First generation Pentiums and earlier? Yes those
>systems didn't support MMX, but from Jan. 97 Intel chips did incorporate MMX
>technology.

The Cyrix 6x86M1 sitting below the desk next to me.

>So by that logic, why wasn't there a Fritz 6 (No MMX)?

Fritz 6 _was_ Fritz 6 No MMX. It didn't take advantage of MMX
yet at that time.

--
GCP



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