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To: Paul Engel who wrote (56634)	4/28/1999 2:14:00 AM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (2) of 1575513

Rob - Re: " EV68 is the Merced killer. Not only is it on par performance wise but Compaq points out it will be 1/5 the cost." EV68 will kill Merced, eh? I've made a mental note of that. ------- Paul, You're a tricky one. Perhaps "Merced Killer" is a bit strong. Merced will thrive, if it ever ships. The reason it will thrive is the same reason "no one ever got fired for recommending IBM". There are a LOT of drones or lemmings out there. What? Well... if you think about it, it will take a lemming-like attitude to choose Merced if EV68: 1) Outperforms it (or is on par) 2) Costs 1/5 the price (ideal at the "low-end" $2000-$5000 point) 3) Runs IA32 binaries faster than Merced 4) More native apps FRS Perhaps you say 1) maybe 2) maybe 3) doubt it 4) doesn't matter but then again, we don't know do we? Because with Merced, we are still talking serious vapor. Do we yet know how many transistors? Do we yet know how many integer units? Wattage? At less than 1/5 the cost of Merced EV68 will more than keep Merced honest. One other thing, focus on 2) above. Merced can't touch it in that price band. Those $10000 Merced workstations ought to be real popular.

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