To really see the 660LX in action, download Silicon Graphics' outstanding handwriting recognition software, CalliGrapher, and turn heads by handwriting memos, notes and E-mails.

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This makes them a better choice for what are termed parallalisable tasks such as drawing graphics on a screen or speech recognition.

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Games, graphics, Internet plug-ins, and speech recognition applications can take particularly good advantage of the new instructions.

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