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To: Charles R who wrote (82807)	12/13/1999 4:21:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571216

Chuck, <x86-64 will be way ahead of IA-64 in sheer number of applications available at launch by an order of magnitude.> Come on, Chuck, if you're going to do any comparison, make it an apples-to-apples one. Itanium can run IA-32 code, and in fact, IA-32 compatibility is considered very important even for IA-64. The performance of Itanium on IA-32 code may not be stellar, but at least it works. (It may even be equivalent to Xeon; I don't know.) Your comparison, however, assumes that IA-32 apps shouldn't be considered "available" from an IA-64 perspective, which is absolutely false. <IA-64 to Intel is somewhat like Microchannel to IBM.> Funny, I thought a certain DRAM technology that Intel was pushing was considered their Microchannel. ;-\| In any case, the analogies to Microchannel is one of the favorite standby arguments of anti-Intel people. AGP was Microchannel. Slot 1 was Microchannel. Slot 2 was Microchannel. RDRAM is now Microchannel. And now IA-64 will be Microchannel. Doesn't it get old after two or three years? Tenchusatsu

To: Charles R who wrote (82807)	12/13/1999 4:28:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571216

Chuckles - Re: "Sledgehammer is probably not much more than 12 months behind." So you expect SludgeHummer to be shipping in evaluation FESTER II boards next December ? Re: "- x86-64 will be way ahead of IA-64 in sheer number of applications available at launch by an order of magnitude." They will ? Says who ? What is the name of one application currently slated for x86 -64 ? Please provide some documentation - or let us know if it's a Wild *ss guess. Paul