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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: semi_infinite who wrote (54726)4/8/1999 3:28:00 AM
From: Rob Young  Read Replies (1) of 1571735
 
MERCED is out???

techweb.com

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Don't wet yourself there laddy . . . MERCED IS OUT in left field.
In fact, you probably won't see a Merced box for well over a
year. Crappy reporting? Sure. One online rag had "an Intel
CPU running a Merced emulator" getting those results. Hardy har
har... So just what was it?

zdnet.com

During Microsoft President Steve Ballmer's keynote
earlier today, Program Manager Richard Waymire
demonstrated a 64-bit version of Microsoft's SQL Server
running on 64-bit Windows 2000 on a four-way Compaq
Alpha server. A query on the machine, which would
have taken 10 minutes on 32-bit Windows 2000, took
just 31 seconds, Waymire said.

Microsoft also demonstrated 64-bit Windows NT
running on Intel's Merced emulator. Merced is the code
name for Intel's forthcoming 64-bit processor.

You know... some folks don't *DARE* tell it like it is ...

Ballmer could have really ground it in couldn't he?
How about a nice tagline for Ballmer:

"You know you could just poke along running an Intel CPU trapped
in a 32-bit world OR pop on over here and run an Alpha with a large
memory setup and voila!!!"

"I am the mighty OZ . . . "
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