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To: kash johal who wrote (94716)	2/23/2000 12:13:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1575522

Kash - Re: "But you make excellent points however. It is inconcievable that Intels design folks would have designed a mediocre FPU. Your logic there indeed has merit. So likelihood is there is a bunch of undisclosed stuff yet." Thanks, Kash. We probably won't know until Q3 or Q4 of this year. Paul

To: kash johal who wrote (94716)	2/23/2000 12:25:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575522

RE:"It is inconcievable that Intels design folks would have designed a mediocre FPU." Is it possible that Intel designed Willy...to... 1. Scale at all costs even with certain trade offs that can be made up for... 2. If the the FPU suffers a little we'll make it up with an SSE type set of instructions? 3. Create benchmarks that emphasize integer...special instructions etc. Something tells me Intel had to make some trade offs to get the Willy to scale...?