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PMJI, but I'd think there could be other more marketing- and customer-friendly answers to the question, "is 3DS optimized for the Pentium?" If it were my product, I'd say "Yes, it is optimized for the Pentium." 3DS is compiled for the 386/486, which means the Pentium runs it even faster than those chips. It's an uninformed question to begin with, and this answer is as correct and honest as the other answer. Exactly which optimization are they concerned about? They have no idea. If someone gets picky and wonders if the data is optimally word-aligned for Pentium, just explain that there's dozens of byte-wide and byte-aligned data in 3DS's internal structures, and there's no way it could be completely optimized without increasing memory requirements by an order of magnitude. 🙂