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- <font color="red"><font size=6>O</font></font>ne other feature of MMX which must be mentioned is improved network
- interaction, as Intel pushes to overcome the 'bandwidth barrier'
- of the Internet.
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- <font color="red"><font size=6>T</font></font>he drive is towards applications that run primarily
- on the PC, with Internet updates only when absolutely necessary.
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- <font color="red"><font size=6>T</font></font>he best PC game ever, Elite for the BBC micro, overcame memory
- restrictions in a similar manner, only making occasional calls
- to the disk drive.<img src="graphics/beast.gif" align=right>
- <ul> <font color="red"><font size=6>A</font></font>s PCs are so fast, and the Internet so slow,
- this seems the right way forward.
- </ul> <font color="red"><font size=6>I</font></font>t could also mean a revolution
- in networked games.
- <ul> <font color="red"><font size=6>P</font></font>OD is playable with a range of options,
- including multiple player scenarios with some participants on
- a LAN, and some connected across the Internet.
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- <a href="http://www.idsoftware.com">oom and Quake</a>
- may have set the standard for playability in these games, but
- playing them across the Internet is a whole new shooting match.
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- <font color="red"><font size=6>V</font></font>ideoconferencing should benefit from similar techniques, and
- may fulfil its promise with MMX.
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- <font color="red"><font size=6>O</font></font>ne final caveat - MMX is likely to reduce performance on standard
- floating point applications, because it is so tuned to multimedia
- calls, but most users, whether business or home, don't really
- need the bravura performance of the higher specification Pentium
- processors anyway.
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