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To: Harry Landsiedel who wrote (67906)	9/25/1999 1:14:00 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

This is VERY SIGNIFICANT news, Harry. Let me be clear. I want nothing to stand in the 820 chipset an the Sabre Motherboard. But, that understood, this eight way stuff is not the same as selling 386sx's at Circuit City. This is the most direct example of the benefit of the DEC acquistion. Dell/Gtw/Packard Bell/and Tom's Screwdriver Shop do not have the personnel to manage and service this stuff, they will. but not today. Let's light this candle. Duke

To: Harry Landsiedel who wrote (67906)	9/25/1999 7:44:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 97611

MSFT exposed this problem internally about a month ago but has kept it under wraps. No CPQ servers have the problem at MSFT but most other 8-ways do. There is also a more subtle version of the hang which just inserts about 30 clock cycles then releases - that's not enough for a human to notice but it caused a 10-15% reduction in performance on most processor-intensive benchmarks. Does not happen on CPQ, does happen on almost everything else, according to my MSFT source. This is almost certainly the reason that DELL and others have not released 8-way benchmarks to match CPQ's spectacular 40,000 tpm result.