On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:21:26 -0400 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:46, Jon Ellis wrote: > > Can someone explain the sse / 3dnow! situation to me? > > > > My understanding is that most modern intel and amd chips supprt sse, > > but only amd support 3dnow! Is this correct? Why would someone with a > > pentium 4 box have 3dnow in their use flags? > > Pentium 3 - sse > Pentium 4 - sse/sse2 > Athlon - 3dnow > AthlonXP - 3dnow/sse PPC74X0 - AltiVec PPC970 - AltiVec //David Holm