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To: Monica Detwiler who wrote (95911)	2/29/2000 9:38:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) of 1572552

Monica, Much of the software industry has committed to the Intel 64 bit Itanium - and most hardware developers have also. Has AMD announced similar support for their 64 bit effort - or are they going it alone at this point? All Athlon needs is a compiler. I don't know the numbers, but my guess is that MSFT Visual C++ probably has 80% or more of the market. To make a compiler for Sledgehammer, all they need to do is to enhance their current 32bit compiler with additional instructions, and maybe some optimization. THe whole effort is a fraction of what is needed for Merced. As far as industry support, when Sledgehammer is released in 2001, MSFT may just be finishing their 64bit conversion of Windows 2000 - based on their speed of delivery of 32 bit Windows 2000. Merced may still be sitting there at 733 MHz with no software going nowhere. Assuming that at the launch of Sledgehammer, the 64 bit version of Windows is finished, and a Microsoft added support Sledgehamer istruction support to their compiler, you have all support that's needed. If Linux is still around in 2001, with a 64bit, I don't have any reason to doubt that there will be Sledgehammer support. Joe

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