Re: [Sheflug] recommended 'distro' for K6 166

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon says:
> seb [at] hypercubesystems.co.uk wrote:
> > I think mmx came in with 686 chips (may be wrong here).
>
> If I remember correctly MMX appeared with the Pentium pro chip (first
> 686) and was added to the 586s they were selling at the time. So I
> think there are some 586 chips (guess 166Mhz upwards) which have the MMX.

Yep - my humble firewall is a P200MMX, and very useful those MMX extensions
were for doing mp3 encoding when it was my main machine :-)

Chris...

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