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To: kash johal who wrote (69753)	8/24/1999 6:59:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) of 1573958

<Frankly the poor performance of Merced at 90% of current HP technology shocked everybody.> What were they running? Native Merced code, or translated PA-RISC instructions? It would come as no shock to me if it's the latter. PA-RISC compatibility is very important for customers of HP servers, especially those using the "N-class" servers which won't move to IA-64 until McKinley. Maybe when you guys say that Merced won't be able to match Athlon, you mean when Merced runs translated x86 code (a.k.a. IA-32). That would also come as no shock to me. <810 - Was supposed to kill all the cheap clones - its been a fiasco and exacerbated the BX chip set situation.> Fiasco? Maybe the initial glitches weren't a good sign, but the roadmaps still call for 810 to be a major part of Intel's Celeron roadmap. That hasn't changed, despite the BX/ZX chipset shortage. By the way, I'm ordering an 810 motherboard right now for a $650 computer I'm building for a friend. Tenchusatsu P.S. - Your other points are more of the same; they aren't worth addressing.

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