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To: Ali Chen who wrote (70455)	8/31/1999 1:49:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) of 1574095

Ali - I'm amazed. This is the first polite post I have ever seen from you!! That Merced demo must have quite a shocking affect on you. Re: "More seriously, these days the computational power allows the pre-silicon model to be verified whether it is capable to boot a serious OS like Windows NT or Linux. It would be a major manufacturing/development software screw-up if a fresh silicon does not boot even at vastly reduced frequency." If it were just a new version of an existing architecture, like Coppermine or Athlon or even Willamette, I would agree with you, but I think you are downplaying the difficulty of integrating a new architecture, new chipset, new instruction set and new operating system. Yes system level simulations have come a long way but this is still a major achievment on what is reported to be the largest die even fabricated. Incidently Intel is now shipping engineering samples to customers: biz.yahoo.com EP

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