Posted May 22, 2010 14:00 UTC (Sat) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)
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That's not true.
They're still there, but there are just better replacements for both of them. The only situation where this might be true is if bit 29 of CPUID 0x80000001 is not set, in which case you can't use MMX in long mode.