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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Steve Porter who wrote (36640)9/2/1998 2:41:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1582341
 
If you install NT on a fat partition, you can install Alpha NT DIRECTLY over Intel NT. Keeping all your registry and user settings. Sounds almost impossible.. Well I used to think so as well, until I saw it done.

You saw it done? What else was involved in this upgrade, a motherboard swapout from Intel to Alpha?

Then you can run alot of your X-86 Apps using the FX-32 emulator.

OK, you convinced me. But if such an upgrade path exists even before the release of Slot A, then what's the need for an interchangeable Slot A, except to keep the motherboard?

Like I said before, the market positioning of K7 is very confusing. Is the K7/EV6 platform going to "grease the skids to Alpha"? Or is AMD merely borrowing the bus interface technology of Digital's EV6 so that AMD wouldn't have to develop one of their own? My guess is the latter.

By the way, whatever happened to the "mechanically identical to Slot 1, but electrically different" characteristic of Slot A? Is this still a go?

Now, while Merced will/may have hardware emulation, how good is it going to be (especially for PA/RISC). Last I heard PA/RISC support won't be in Merced, but in it's follow on chip..

I don't know. I was pretty surprised to hear about PA-RISC support in IA-64 in the first place. Don't know if it'll be dropped for Merced, but you can be sure HP will provide viable solutions for customers who want to move from PA-RISC to IA64. And of course HP wouldn't bother with that unless they knew that moving to IA64 would be advantageous.

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