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To: kapkan4u who wrote (69821)	8/25/1999 1:36:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) of 1576155

Re: "Microsoft stayed with Alpha EV6 because they felt that the P6 bus was scaling very poorly for SMP. Now Microsoft has the best of both worlds: Intel architecture (Athlon) and a scalable SMP bus (EV6)." This article disagrees with you. techweb.com "Performance for the eight-ways has been 1.7 times that of a four-way server running Windows NT, and better than twice the performance of a four-way server running Windows 2000." Seems like the bus scales just fine. It is NT that is the bottleneck. EP

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