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To: Process Boy who wrote (93689)	2/17/2000 12:37:00 AM
From: semiconeng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571864

re: Anyway, regarding your question, I trust Haim Baird, who posted that it was indeed a Willamette system running PPT, would certainly be in a position to know this. PB Ace's Hardware says it was: aceshardware.com "Willamette Presentation Confirmed (INTEL) Posted By Brian Neal Wednesday, February 16, 2000 - 11:26:51 AM A very special thanks to John Mechalas for confirming Yu's presentation was indeed run on a Willamette system. There was some concern that Yu's comments may have been misinterpreted. If you listen to the web broadcast of Andy Grove's keynote (available here), you will find that his comments are quite clear. At the very end of the keynote, Albert Yu came on stage to inform the audience that the entire presentation had been running on Willamette. Note that you'll need RealPlayer 7 to view the webcast. The jokes Albert makes in Keynote #2, which is what the quote above is referencing, is actually referring to the fact that the person running the slides was jumping ahead of Albert. Albert turned this into a joke on WMT's speed, since the presentation was running on a WMT system. SemiConEng

To: Process Boy who wrote (93689)	2/17/2000 1:12:00 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571864

Anyway, regarding your question, I trust Haim Baird, who posted that it was indeed a Willamette system running PPT, would certainly be in a position to know this. PB, I was the one who originally posed the question to Elmer and my question never questioned whether it was a Willamette or not. I am pretty honest so I believe it when Intel says it was a Willamette. What I questioned was whether it was running at 1500 GHz, or at a much lesser rate. I firmly believe given the Willamette's immaturity and the probability of its crashing, they would not risk running at the higher speed for 2 hours! ted