Originally posted by NOMADMAN
Side question for cyborg:
I was under the impression that ASM was processor maker specific. So itsn't there an Athlon ASM and an Intel ASM? Or is it an 80x86 ASM?

NOMAD
AMD processor are Intel compatibles. That's why they can run programs written for Intel platform(80x86 architecture to be specific).

MMX, SSE and SSE2 are Intel's SIMD instructions.

3DNow and 3DNow+ are AMD's SIMD instructions. However, AMD licenses MMX and SSE for use in its line of processors.