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To: Paul Engel who wrote (96314)	3/2/2000 4:22:00 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (2) of 1572102

"Of course - but Intel's customers have ITanium systems for software development. What about EV68 - does in even RUN ?" Yes it runs and runs well.. more impressively it uses 65 Watts and is quite small. "They" may have Itanium systems for software development but a 733 MHz Itanium will make little sense when 1.2 GHz Athlon and 1.5 GHz Willamette (both with on chip L2) that will be shipping at the same time. Too bad too ... if Itanium hadn't had another year of delay it might have had a chance for market penetration... if you want performance you will probably have to go with Alpha. Today you can buy an ES40 with 667 MHz Alphas that does: 83 - SpecFp95 40 - SpecInt95 2550 - MByte/Sec in McCalpin Stream A glimpse of things to come when Alpha goes over a GHz this summer. Rob

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