Re: off-topic : mmx
On 13 Apr 98 18:10:22 GMT, in linux.debian.user Ossama Othman wrote:
>That's not what I recall. I recall that MMX stood for "Multi Media
>eXtensions," too. However, I couldn't find anything on the Intel site
>about what it stood for. Perhaps "MMX" really is a PR thing. :)
MMX does, according to popular opinion, stand for "Multi Media
eXtensions". However, Intel wouldn't have been able to trademark that
(for a reason that is beyond me), and tried to make everyone believe
that MMX was just a random collection of letters, which can be a
trademark. The courts didn't buy into this, and so Intel's
competitors were allowed to use MMX on their own chips.
If I remember correctly...
Rob Wilderspin.
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