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To: Tony Viola who wrote (25613)	1/3/2000 6:47:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Well, I don't want to speak outta school Tony, and I know chip architecture is your gig, but my reference was more toward the nature of RISC -v- CISC. twister doesn't understand 'scalability' and that Intel is at a natural disadvantage. -JCJ

To: Tony Viola who wrote (25613)	1/3/2000 6:57:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

It's certainly not clear to me that the compiler technology will exist in time to take full advantage of the architecture, nor is it clear to me that it'll perform well in environments requiring rapid context switching. The bottom line is that EPIC, being new, is unproven. Personally, I think Sun's proposal for MAJC "multiprocessor on a chip" is a better idea. sun.com As long as code is effectively multithreaded, my guess is it should perform well with such a scheme. JMHO, of course (and I'm not a computer designer, although I do have a degree in that field).