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To: Monica Detwiler who wrote (95872)	2/29/2000 3:06:00 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572512

Hi monica, glad you're back. Now what was your question? Oh yeah, #1- K8 runs existing software at full speed. #2- we don't worry about 2 years from now. AMD won't be around. Intel will rule the world! Doesn't Intel's current situation bother you? It's hilarious! Can't you find a real job yet? I hear Intel needs some more PR on the message boards. See pauL, elmer, PB, Tenchusatsu, or John Hull. Vapor works short term. steve

To: Monica Detwiler who wrote (95872)	2/29/2000 3:19:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572512

Monica, <Sledgehammer won't be out until the end of 2001, that leaves almost two years for software developers to write their code for the Itanium - since this chip has been sampling since late in 1999.> This is the biggest problem with Sledgehammer. Although people ridicule the lateness of Itanium, the fact is that it will be here at least a year and a half before Sledgehammer. Perhaps Jerry Sanders knows this as well, which is why he's spreading anti-Itanium FUD in a (futile) effort to scare developers away from IA-64. Tenchusatsu

To: Monica Detwiler who wrote (95872)	2/29/2000 8:12:00 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Respond to of 1572512

Monica, Actually there are a lot of pieces of software that will not run any faster, even if compiled to run as 64 bits. If you only need 32 bits (or 16 or 8) then it is wasteful in memory to use 64 bits and the resulting code/data bloat can actually hurt your overall performance. A lot of the advantages of 64 bits can be achieved just by getting the parts of the OS involved in bulk data transfer up to 64 bits (memory management, disk/display/network drivers etc) and letting the apps do a natural migration over a few years. Look at how Microsoft did the 16 to 32 bit migration for Win95, for example. You would be surprised how many 16 bit Windows applications you are still running without knowing it.