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To: Tony Viola who wrote (99363)	2/17/2000 1:35:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony, I have no idea how well the 870 systems will scale, but I assume they'll scale very well. You definitely won't get 2x the performance increase going from 8-way to 16-way because of the overhead, but the hope is that it'll be close. (Maybe 1.7x?) But what is known is that 16-way systems should be much cheaper to build than before. Before, anything above 4-way was considered to be "massive big iron." Then with Profusion, the boundary was moved to 8-way. With 870, perhaps the boundary will be moved up even further when OEMs enable their 16-way and above systems? Tenchusatsu