On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 06:38:56PM +0530, Nick Hill wrote:
> > Kisalay> For those interested, I have a P!!! - 450 with 128 MB SD
> > Kisalay> ( 100 MHz ) and a ZX m/b.
>
> Be uses the PIII Katmai and KNI instructions for better speed. That's
> the advantage of being a new O/S. It uses all the latest tech
> available. And the O/S framework is more optimised to use the existing
> tech.
Actually, there is nothing in Linux or XFree86 that prevents people from
doing that. Infact, making sure that technologies like KNI get adopted
quickly was the charter of my former group at Intel.
There are tons of math and image libraries at developer.intel.com - they
all need some translators to AT&T (gcc) asm syntax though.
-Arun
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