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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (74846)10/10/1999 10:10:00 PM
From: Charles R  Respond to of 1573857
 
<As late as Merced is, it's ironic to note that Merced/Itanium will hit the market well before Power4.>

Do you think the one year lag matters when you consider the application software base the the IBM64 chip will be backward compatible to?

P.S.: I personally do not think this chip is going anywhere other than IBM internal stuff but nontheless the above question is still valid.