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Audio Video Interleaved Video  |  1997-03-09  |  41.6 MB  |  320x240  |  15fps  |  2 minutes, 14 seconds
Transcription: According to Intel, the Pentium MMX chip is actually the most significant enhancement from a programmer's point of view to the Pentium and to the Intel architecture for the last 10 years. But what does that really give you? What's new in the chip? Basically there's three main things. The first one is that it actually has double the amount of cache memory on the chip. This time it's got 32K cache memory rather than 16. Now what this will do is this will speed up all your programs, because they all use the processor and they all use instructions which are cached in here. Secondly, Intel have imp ...