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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (70366)8/31/1999 1:32:00 AM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1573912
 
Re: "If this is such an "unbelieveable" feat, why did they have so many f**k ups in the past?"

I won't try and minimize the situation, the schedules slips were obviously bad. I'm don't have insight to what happened but I can only guess that the project was much greater than anticipated and they did a bad job of estimating the work involved.

Re: "Isn't there a possibilty MerDUD's design was tested on newer, more advanced devices compared to the K7? "

I'm not sure what you mean but if Intel is really able to demo a working system soon, it will really make a statement that Intel's simulation environment is truly world class. It's hard to convey the difficulty in running system level simulations on an entirely new architecture, or even a new version of an existing architecture. If (big IF) they have a working system on A0 silicon this is truly a groundbreaking achievement. Again, how long did it take for AMD to demo a K7?

Re: "Remember, MerDUD is still a foil, per your defination."

Agreed. Still a foil.

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