Re: Mersenne: AMD K7 will "smoke" Intel FPU?

[Jud McCranie]

At 08:59 PM 10/18/98 +0100, Phil Brett wrote:
>Isn't the 3DNOW ! FPU less 'bits' than the Intel one? Didn't we go through
>this loop a while back and come to the conclusion that it was no use to 'us'
>as it wasn't double precision ( or some thing like that ) ?
>
>Phil Brett

The regular FPU must be compatible as Intel's.  The 3D Now instructions are
probably shorter, but they probably don't matter anyway.


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