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To: Paul Engel who wrote (98134)	2/3/2000 6:22:00 AM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Many will buy the 8000 for the amount of internal storage it can handle. There are certain performance and reliabilty advantages of using the internal drive bays of the 8000 as opposed to external drive bays. The 8000 features extended 64 bit PCI slots. The extensions on these slots are for the SCSI channels of the RAID controllers. Thus you have three 80M SCSI channels with no external cabling (external cabling is susceptible to becoming dislodged). This is faster than fibre channel. The raid cards can be duplicated, with even the cache RAM being redundant. I am curious as to who would actually populate these servers with 8 processors. Although NT Enterprise edition will support 8 way processing, Win 2000 server & Win 2000 Advanced server will in most cases not. For that you need Win2k Data Center Edition. So I would think almost all of these servers will get a maximum of 4 processors, but will be bought for their disk performance, number of PCI slots, hot swap PCI, RAID redundancy, triple redundant power supplies, Remote redundant BIOS etc. - at least until Data Center Edition comes out, then you will probably see sales of these 8-way machines rocket (at the expense of Sun market share). compaq.com

To: Paul Engel who wrote (98134)	2/3/2000 7:12:00 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul & Intel Investors, According to this mornings WSJ, Intel AND AMD will "announce" a 1 Gig chip on MONDAY! (at the International Solid State Circuits Conference) Also according to the Journal - "But the new chips aren't expected to be available in PC's for a while: Intel and AMD so far have said only that they will begin selling them by the end of the year". The information is old news to us, but the short article is headlined "Intel and AMD to Declare Speed Breakthrough", and should impress the average retail PC consumer. I think there will be some strong demand for these PC's from the early adapters who have to have the latest and greatest. The race is on. Looks like we will have to start hearing about a lack of 1 Gig Intel sightings from the AMDroids. John