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To: Charles R who wrote (82809)	12/13/1999 4:25:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1571775

Re: "COMPATIBLE CPU, huh? Kind of like Alpha emulated x86 once upon a time. And probably with similar success." The Merced processor executes x86 binaries unmodified. EP

To: Charles R who wrote (82809)	12/13/1999 4:34:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571775

Chuckles - Re: "COMPATIBLE CPU, huh? Kind of like Alpha emulated x86 once upon a time. And probably with similar success." I can tell by your incoherent, wild, unsubstantiated claims that Intel's Meced/ITanium/IA64 early success industry support has you nervous beyond belief. Do try to analyze the situation - instead of making off-the-wall-wild-*ss-prayers as to the eventual success of AMD's 18 month-in-the-future-SludgeHummer. Paul