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To: Joe NYC who wrote (96156)	3/1/2000 7:49:00 PM
From: Epinephrine	Respond to of 1576881

RE: <I am assuming that 64bit hardware will be readily available and not much more expensive.> I thought that Itanium was targeted as an extremely high end (read expensive) product. I think that we are talking about two different scales of projects here. Any company that needs 64 bits is already in a world of dedicated servers and distinct tiers that communicate over their corporate LAN/WAN. There is very little other need for 64 bits, Merced's main advantage is not 64 bits it is that it leaves behind some of the X86 architectural limitations, it is a fresh start, it uses an EPIC architecture that is supposedly faster and better. The 64 bits does nothing more than allow the processor to address larger amounts of memory and disk space. 64 bits is not all of what makes Itanium different or potentially better and if all AMD has is 64 bits then they had better hope that the other supposed advantages of Merced bomb big time. JMHO Thanks, Epinephrine