ISP Information:
The name for Intel's additions to the x86 instructions set, introduced in its Pentium III processor. The SSE extensions are similar to AMD's 3DNow! set of instructions. These extensions are a set of 70 instructions that perform SIMD operations. In addition, to support these instructions Pentium IIIs come with 8 128-bit registers dedicated to them.
ISP Glossary:
SSE - The first online service provide by the company that would one day berenamed America Online, was QLink a service for C64 (and C128)computers. That was when the company was Quantum Computer Services.Later they developed versions for other computers. Apple Link PersonalAddition was for Apple II and Macintosh Computers. PCLink was for DOScomputers. There was another service (name escapes me) which was adeal with IBM.All of these services were separate from each other (nointeroperablility or communicability). In 1992 Quantum ComputerServices changed their name to America Online and went public.I believe (historians with access to archival information can correctme) that 1992 also marked the first use of AOL as a service name(Apple Link Personal addition, changed it's name to AmericaOnline). Apple II and Mac users were interoperable on the same"service". In that year the "IBM" service client got opened up (theIBM service remained, but separate from the others) and it too joinedthe AOL service. This client used the GEOS operation system (a motifinterface on top of DOS). 1992 also was the year that AOL was workingon the first WINDOWS client, which made its debut in January of 1993.Several years later, AOL closed the door on the first and secondgeneration clients (sunsetted them) and Qlink, PCLink and Apple IIusers were no longer able to sign on to AOL.Geos users lasted quite a few more years, but finally got dropped fromthe service.I've been an AOL (Apple Link) user since 1988. An employee since1992. I was using the Apple II service up through the wee hours of themorning they finally turned it off."I'm sorry, all my money is tied up in currency."W.C.Fields
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