However, to do the MMX chips justice, they do process MPEG beautifully.

      Full screen videos barely flicker, and it is not until three windows are being used to run MPEGs simultaneously that performance begins to degrade.
    And the sound processing is better too - higher sample rates mean a real improvement in clarity; your PC won't sound as good as your stereo yet, but it's getting there.

      Intel made a tacit acknowledgement that it is waiting for applications to take advantage of MMX when it claimed it ' is the most significant enhancement to the programmer's view of the Intel architecture in the last ten years'.
    The company is appealing to code writers, not users, to make the platform a success.