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To: semiconeng who wrote (22667)	12/16/2000 11:33:12 PM
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Wait a minute semiconeng (Part II)... ----Quite a bit more than a handfull. I could sweep around the net and repost all the vendor links, but frankly it's been done many times. Comparing Digital with intel for designing and marketing microprocessors, is apples and oranges. Digital aint no intel.... By a Long Shot I consider 77 apps or so to be a handfull. The size of the Itanium's market could be approximated by : Size = 77/(all existing apps) * (an app's usage expression) ... but then you have to consider that thos app doesnt run alone on the system so you find the probability that a user run it's setup of n applications on an Itanium by calculating the nth power of Size (size is always less than 1...). As for Digital, they were very powerful at the time... they were even bigger than Intel, and they came up with a chip that revolutioned the PC. They were an healty orange while Intel is closer to an enormous apple rooting from everywhere. Ibm is an other example of a company that unsuccessfully tried to BE the future. Also, when intel extended 16 bit into 32, they had tons of resources, a huge installed customer base, and very little competition, AMD is attempting to repeat history, with allot less money, and allot smaller base, not to mention competition from a 600lb Gorilla. Good Luck. My interpretation is that it's not Intel that is responsible of the successful move to 32 bit but rather the need of the market to have a backward compatible platform to smootly move to 32 bit. Max interesting debate I think :)

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