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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer who wrote (70446)	8/31/1999 1:35:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573941

Fudd, <Intel's Barrett shows Linux running on Merced:> How do you know it was a Merced? :) Have you seen the open box? Maybe it was a remarked P-III? :) (just playing little elmers and engels here :) More seriously, these days the computational power allows the pre-silicon model to be verified whether it is capable to boot a serious OS like Windows NT or Linux. It would be a major manufacturing/development software screw-up if a fresh silicon does not boot even at vastly reduced frequency. Do you happen to know the frequency the demo run at? Since Intel keeps dead silence on this matter, I suspect it was not impressive to advertise. And finally, no one questioned ability of Intel to make a working silicon (eventually). What was seriously questioned is the actual performance of this new iA432-"MX" architecture on real-world workloads. It remains to be seen.