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To: RDM who wrote (51761)	3/6/1999 2:39:00 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (1) of 1573099

I don't think so. The x86 support comes from a separate x86 core included in a corner of the Merced chip. The real complexity is not in the hardware but in the demands that EPIC makes on the compiler. To tell you the truth, I don't believe that Merced will ever fly, simply because they are moving too much complexity out into the compiler and thence to the applications. We have a hard enough time debugging apps at the moment without increasing the compiler complexity by an order of magnitude. However hard Intel try and push the architecture the fact will remain that EPIC apps will crash more frequently.

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