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To: Charles R who wrote (71492)	9/9/1999 12:20:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574852

Charles, <<At least a few companies are supporting Intel's servers with 4 Gig data addressing. Will AMD's SMP servers get this attention ?> Let's check the scene after AMD ships chips for that application space.> That garage fart is confused as usual on most technical matters. The 2GB limit has nothing to do with hardware support or non-support on "intel's" nor "non-intel's" PC or servers. That was the Microsoft limitation to simplify memory planning and allocation for system configuration purposes: the address space above 2GB was recommended for PCI memory-mapped devices, and all BIOS guys just assumed the case. That's it. With some sophistication you can always reconfigure PCI resources and use as much memory as you can buy for your server. If Linux decided to ignore the 2GB Microsoft rule and now runs on some big PC machines, it will equally run on any AMD machine as well. Even more, I am afraid to further disappoint our garage retiree. Because of some known compatibility with Digital Alpha, the K7 itself may have a buil-in capability to address much more of memory space than he thinks of.

To: Charles R who wrote (71492)	9/9/1999 1:18:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574852

Chuckles - Re: "Let's check the scene after AMD ships chips for that application space. " Good idea. And just when will that be ? And how many more Intel 2-way, 4-way and 8-way servers will have shipped by then ? By the way - did you ever consider that Intel Merced Servers may "possibly" be shipping BEFORE any AthLATE servers ever ship ? You should consider this. If you think MotherBoard vendors are having a "wee-bit-of-difficulty" getting ONE AthLATE to work on a motherboard, think of all the fun they are going to have getting 4 or 8 AthLATEs to work on a motherboard !!!! Paul