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To: Joe NYC who wrote (110432)	5/11/2000 4:07:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (3) of 1574312

Jozef, My point is that the OS is nowhere being near ready. Itanium is already 2 to 3 years late, and the OS is not even in beta. Nowhere near ready? Summer is not soon enough, heck the chip won't even be out until Q3. Why does the software need to be out before the hardware? Exactly where should they be? Don't you know software is never ready/done - it just gets "released" warts and all. As for: It is taking forever to get Merced to work with some degree of stability at 800 MHz target, which would barely be competitive today. Really, hadn't heard that one. 800Mhz is very respectable for servers. I haven't seen a single schedule slip in Merced this year, have you? So how can it be late, given the restated schedule we've been through a thousand times already. Nothing has changed, yet you see an article that says what everyone knows - Microsoft is working on the new 64 bit OS, Intel has a test system out for some developers and the scope is widening via an official Microsoft beta this summer. That the OS won't ship until or with the IA-64 later this year. Nothing new in that artilce, atleast nothing new in a negative sense - just affirmation that things are really happening.

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