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Re: tlug: Sony vaio 505



On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Craig Oda wrote:

> Some time ago, Manuel commented on he Sony Vaio 505.  I was
> down in Shinbashi, so I went to an electronics shop to check it
> out.  The cheapest one they had there was a 166 Intel MMX model
> for about 250,000.  I seem to remember one for under 200,000 yen,
> but it was a 133mhz model.  The '97 11 brochure I have is for the
> 133mhz model.  Perhaps it was known to be discontinued and thus
> heavily discounted?
> 
> I was just wondering, can Linux make use of the mmx specific features?

Well, it *knows* about them, but I'm not sure what it does with them...
ie, if you have an MMX CPU and you look at /proc/cpuinfo, it has 'mmx'
listed in the flags line.

> 
> ---
> Re: Jpython on Linux
> on a different subject, has anyone got JPython (Java Python) to 
> work under Linux?  The installer is giving me problems and I haven't
> gotten it to work yet.   
> 
> Re: LyX under Debian Hamm
> I recompiled LyX under Debian Hamm, and I'm still getting core dumps.
> The compilation went through fine with no errors.
> Anyone have it running under Debian, or have any hints?  I suspect it
> is a library compatibility problem, but the links seem to be to the
> newer libs.  
> 
> Regards,
> Craig
> 
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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Next TLUG Meeting: 11 April 1998 Saturday, Tokyo Station
Featuring Tague Griffith of Netscape i18n talking on source code
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