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From: John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Intel MMX compatibility?
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:06:51 -0400
Organization: University of the Virgin Islands
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I am about to order 2 new P5-200 machines to run FreeBSD. Is there any
experience out there in using the new MMX technology CPUs with FreeBSD? 

If I don't hear otherwise I will order CPUs without MMX to be on the
safe side, but I would like to take advantage of the larger on-chip
cache on the new CPU.

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