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Graphics capabilities were slowly introduced to the PC first by clever Invariably did not use Intel CPU's, nor MS operating systems. Performance 2D/3D imaging, and CAD systems. Like Silicon Graphics, Intergraph, and Apollo Computer, to create high This GrandĬanyon-sized marketing gap left the business door wide open for other vendors, Absolutely nothing about it-from CPU to memoryīus-was meant to act like a high performance imaging system. Your Intel 8088 PC began its life as a very crude Also caught in the middle are all the consumerĮlectronics companies as they gear up for the great digital TV wars.īut to see how these bases got so crazily loaded, let's go back to this game's Mayonnaise effect it will have on software developers sandwiched between these Intel are billions of your IS/IT dollars-Not too mention the squishing Stake in this looming new battle between Microsoft and Systems weren't so vitally important, the above computer replay of Abbot & Costello'sĬlassic comedy routine would make for a great TV farce. Issues for the next generation PC multimedia processing They allow software developers to design richer, more exciting applications for the PC".įirst? What's on second? I Don't Know is on third? If the techno-marketing "Processors enabled with MMX technology will deliver enough< performance to execute compute-intensive communications and multimedia tasks with headroom left to run other tasks or applications. "Those who maintain that improvements in CPU and VLSI technology are sufficient to produce low cost hardware or even software (image processing & graphics) systems that we would consider high performance today, have not carefully analyzed the nature of the fundamental forces at work" - Microsoft, speaking on its new Talisman multimedia architecture, from Microsoft Talisman Abbott and Costello Do Multimedia If you have a brand name computer (eg HP, DELL, IBM you must provide us with a HeatSink part number or we will ship you a generic heatsink if you order one from us.Intel MMX vs.In order to run dual cpus in one machine the SL codes must match Your particular cpu may have many SL codes (think of them as versions of cpus made).
This is a 5 digit alpha-numberic code on the cpu itself.