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To: Paul Engel who wrote (82786)	12/13/1999 2:45:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571398

<Actually, it doesn't much matter. ITanium is not meant to be a WINDOWS CPU. I don't think its the sheer volume - its's the ENTERPRISE NATURE of applications.> My point exactly. Merced can be a commerical success for Intel but may never get the volume necessary to become mainstream and most likely will go the way of Sparc, Mips, Alpha and all those super-duper CPUs - this kind of stuff ends up being a niche market or faces extinction as x86 derivatives makeup for the architectural weaknesses with leverage resulting from sheer volume and market muscle.