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To: kapkan4u who wrote (69821)	8/25/1999 2:11:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576163

kap - <<Microsoft's move to back away from Alpha throws into question the extent to which Microsoft will push the scalability envelope in the future.> I suppose you can take that more than one way. However, even MSFT can't stop the eventual progression from 32 to 64. As far as I know, MSFT is still porting to Merced. For MSFT to just throw up their hands and say this 64 bit stuff is too hard would be very foolish, IMHO, and I have to believe that if they're 'scaling back", it's on platforms, not from 64 to indefinite 32. PB

To: kapkan4u who wrote (69821)	8/25/1999 1:36:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576163

Re: "Microsoft stayed with Alpha EV6 because they felt that the P6 bus was scaling very poorly for SMP. Now Microsoft has the best of both worlds: Intel architecture (Athlon) and a scalable SMP bus (EV6)." This article disagrees with you. techweb.com "Performance for the eight-ways has been 1.7 times that of a four-way server running Windows NT, and better than twice the performance of a four-way server running Windows 2000." Seems like the bus scales just fine. It is NT that is the bottleneck. EP