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To: Rob Young who wrote (96089)	3/1/2000 3:46:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1572382

Rob, anyone care to guess which OS is the most popular by volume shipment for Itanium this time next year? Beta of Windows 2000 64 Joe

To: Rob Young who wrote (96089)	3/1/2000 3:54:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572382

Alpha Rob! Long time, no see! I kind of missed your insights. <Compaq will use an eight way system based on Foster (Willamette) and then will migrate that model to the future Intel McKinley model. Interesting. Compaq reckons there is so much growth in the eight way market, as its sales figures have proved, that it makes more sense to migrate the eight way model to McKinley, kind of leaving Itanium for the Itaniates> It could also be that Intel isn't developing an 8-way chipset for Merced/Itanium. Intel does have an 870 chipset coming for McKinley and Foster, though, and that will be 8-way. Tenchusatsu

To: Rob Young who wrote (96089)	3/1/2000 11:43:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572382

Rob - Re: "Itanium is a development platform... it won't have much interest at all as its clock-rate sucks and will suck compared to Willamette and Athlon... clock rate isn't everything but both Free-Willy and Athloss will have outstanding memory systems, etc." Seems like you completely ignored your old favorite - ALPHA ! What frequency are the Production Alpha Servers shipping at? By the way - why didn't that fellow from Compaq discuss the 8-way Alpha Servers? Paul