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Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow
The blitter emulation uses AMMX. I suspect software mixing in AHI drivers to also use it. It is common on all platforms to see vector units used in drivers mostly.
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Amiga OS was designed to work that way from the start, and we already have programs being compiled for different CPUs etc. so AMMX is no different. If AMMX can make some stuff a bit faster then what's not to like? Plenty of Amiga expansion boards have FPUs that are almost never used, but nobody calls such underuse a failure.
I think some people are just upset because they don't have a Vampire and are worried that they will be left out. But so long as drivers or libraries are used it's no problem - except for possible slower operation when AMMX isn't available. That's no worse than having to put up with emulating instructions on an 060 that even stock A1200s have.