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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (64483)	11/28/2001 5:24:13 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Gopher: One would ask how much slower Itanium runs with the bios patch, but performance doesn't seem very relevant to advocates of that processor. Something like a 10% performance decrease (which is just a WAG on my part, with absolutely no basis in reality) would be of little to no consequence. The current crop of Itanium systems can only be considered "development platforms", similar to the AMD / Simics Hammer simulator - although probably an order of magnitude faster (which certainly makes it much more useful). For Itanium proponents, it should be a real relief that the problem was so "superficial" that it could be solved with a simple BIOS upgrade and was in no way indicative of a fundamental flaw in the systems / processors. -fyo

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