SPECS: mythtv.spec - i586 has mmx

[Paweł Gołaszewski]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Maciej Pijanka wrote:
> > > Author: glen                         Date: Sun Sep 25 17:50:17 2005 GMT
> > > Module: SPECS                         Tag: HEAD
> > > ---- Log message:
> > > - i586 has mmx
> > BTW, is it runtime choice ?
> > If not:
> > - not all i586 has mmx (eg. Cyrix / AMD K5)
> > - even not all Pentiums has mmx ( < 150MHz definetely don't)
> ven 166 was with and without mmx, 2 different cores m not sure if i saw 
> 200 without mmx too.

P-200 was with and without mmx.
P-233 was AFAIR the first mmx-only CPU.

But... this spec assumes also that every i686 has mmx. And it's not true 
:( - there were such veeeery nice and veeery old-first-i686, called 
Pentium Pro. non-mmx, sorry...

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