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

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From: Matthew Collins <matthew [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:06:08 +0000
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:45:10PM +0000, simon [at] cliffestones.demon.co.uk wrote:
> 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.
> 

MMX Was first added to the original Pentium. 166MMX was the first IIRC.
The Pentium Pro never had MMX. Pentium II was the first ppro class Cpu 
with MMX.

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