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"The Complete Guide to MMX Technology", Intel Corporation, 1997, 0-07-006192-0,
U$59.95
%A   Intel Corporation
%C   300 Water Street, Whitby, Ontario   L1N 9B6
%D   1997
%E   Scott Grillo
%G   0-07-006192-0
%I   McGraw-Hill Ryerson/Osborne
%O   U$59.95 905-430-5000 +1-800-565-5758 +1-905-430-5134 fax: 905-430-5020
%P   315
%T   "The Complete Guide to MMX Technology"

This book appears to be an interleaved conflation of three texts with quite
disparate purposes.

One portion is a standard technical reference to MMX technology, giving details
of the register architecture and instructions.  The MMX extensions to Intel
processors provide parallel and array processing for multimedia functions, and
can also be used for applications such as brute force attacks on encryption.

A second component appears to be a course-based text for use in microprocessor
classes.  This is most apparent in the rather simplistic sets of end-of-chapter
questions.

The third entity seems to be some kind of marketing document promoting the use
of MMX by software developers.  (Of course, if Intel can convince developers to
write important programs using MMX instructions, then users will have to buy
MMX processors, now, won't they?)

The CD-ROM includes utilities to aid in debugging MMX code and operations.

(We don't want to influence any court battles, but boy!, is this stuff ever
similar to briefings on the Alpha from four years ago....)

copyright Robert M. Slade, 1997   BKMMXTCH.RVW   970713