Word: pentiums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...industry this year, and with Oracle dangling a $500 computer in front of consumers, you might expect to find Intel CEO Andy Grove sneaking a peek at other platforms. No chance. Grove's hole card: revolutionary Intel technology called MMX (matrix manipulation extensions) that will load already speedy Pentium chips with a set of fast multimedia instructions. Intel engineers say MMX is the company's greatest advance in a decade--bigger even than the Pentium...
...these features have a heavy cost--Navigator has become a huge program, and it takes a Pentium or Power Macintosh processor and 16 megabytes of memory to get good performance...
Supporters of the NC note that most people don't need all the power offered by a Pentium system for tasks like word processing and e-mail. The NC will be based around the "network-centric" model, in which the Internet is at the heart of computing...
...probably need at least a Pentium to be really happy with the game. id promises that Quake will run faster in later versions of the game...
...classroom containing new multimedia Pentium 100s with CDROMs has been created in the Science Center basement to go with the Macintosh classroom already in the Science Center...