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To: rudedog who wrote (26922)	1/28/2000 7:57:00 PM
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"Counterfeit" because it's explicitly tied in their marketing babble to Microsoft Windows, which won't exploit a 32-way straight-up cached crossbar machine any time soon. Now if they wanted to run Solaris on it, it might be a contender.<g> As for IA64: I will continue to discount it until I see a 16-way IA64 machine running a 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows through a TPC or similar benchmark for 72 hours without crashing but with scaling and respectable results. What is your guess as to when that's going to happen, dog? Mine is October 2001. Are we going to claim that an IA-64 chip running in any of its sundry 32-bit modes is some kind of world beater? Captive box-builders might, but it's going to be awful easy for Sun to sell against. Intel is not breaking any records for getting working silicon out on time these days. (Neither is Sun, but Sun isn't quite in the same position.) On the other hand, M$FT is breaking records for getting working software out. Unfortunately, they're the wrong records. --QS