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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (82811)	12/13/1999 4:33:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1571235

<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.> This is a fair criticism and I agree with you to a large extent. My only point here would be that x86-performance on IA64 will implementation probably will not be in the same ball park as x86-64 implementations. If that does not hold, then all bets are off and x86-64 will bleed. <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?> To be sure, I have never used the Microchannel analogy to any of the things that you mention. If someone else did then I can't help. Also, I agree that it is not correct analogy in this context. IMHO, it is "somewhat" appropriate but clearly not apples-to-apples comparison. Chuck

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (82811)	12/13/1999 4:40:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571235

Tenchusatsu - Re: "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?" Excellent analysis ! The AMDroids are all ignoring the fact that the ATHwipe could possibly be AMD's MicroChannel ! Paul