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To: RDM who wrote (47888)	1/30/1999 1:42:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (3) of 1571069

RDM, I agree that Alpha ownership would be an extremely valuable investment for AMD. Merced is going nowhere real fast. The chip is huge and will not be manufacturable in quantity. The performance will probably be a great disappointment as well. I have a few technical comments on your comments: 2. Will they would produce an X86 enhanced Alpha (more speed running X86 apps)? No way. This has been studied extensively by many companies and nobody has come up with a worthwhile idea yet. Messing with the architecture would probably slow down the clock speed. The current Alphas run X86 apps by emulation and are not going to be super fast at running x86 apps True and not true. FX32 is primarily a translator, rather than an interpreter. It actually converts the memory image of the program into an Alpha executable. Only the non-translatable parts are emulated. As a result, x86 apps generally run >50% as fast as native Alpha apps. On servers, x86 code compatibility is largely a don't care anyway. The vast majority of the server market is Sparc machines. Scumbria

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