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To: Prognosticator who wrote (21839)	10/27/1999 2:04:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

FWIW, I think Unisys has recently announced an Intel based machine with a crossbar.

To: Prognosticator who wrote (21839)	10/27/1999 2:15:00 PM
From: cfimx	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

>>And again, having a cheaper CPU is no advantage since the CPU is such a minor part of the overall system<<< is that so. How bout if you multiply that lack of advantage by 256?

To: Prognosticator who wrote (21839)	10/27/1999 4:32:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Prog, Adaptec's AHA-3950U2 SCSI serves at 160MB/s - bus mastered. With bus bandwidth 100+MHZ and INTC motherboards supporting concurrent host,AGP,PCI to main memory transactions I don't see an i/o bottleneck ? The price/perf of n-way x86 will make serious in-roads as an alternative to traditional more expensive n-way solutions. Full story... dailynews.yahoo.com Excerpt of interest... The ES7000, based on Intel chips and Microsoft software, will eclipse more expensive UNIX-based computers used to run large-scale e-business, by matching the performance of such machines at as little as one-fifth the price. Unisys officials took aim at Sun Microsystems Inc (Nasdaq:SUNW - news).'s E10000, currently the most popular machine for running major Web sites. Cheers James