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To: Scumbria who wrote (96161)	3/1/2000 8:16:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572594

Scumbria, re: I think that EPIC will be successful, because Intel and HP have put a lot of thought into scalability and other specific features important to servers (like broadcasting.) The performance of McKinley will probably be much higher than anything that the brain dead architects at UltraSparc will come up with. Alpha had a chance, but Compaq's inability to commit wholeheartedly has left it on it's deathbed. IBM Power will have it's niche, but I don't really see anything else which can compete with IA-64 going out into the future. I'm not counting on AMD to do anything, but who knows? So then what's with the "troll" about power plants? Or is the admission of knowing the future is Itanium/McKinley your latest troll?

To: Scumbria who wrote (96161)	3/1/2000 8:27:00 PM
From: Epinephrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572594

Scumbria, Thank you for your thoughts and I agree with you, I am not as well versed in all of the competitive offerings that you mentioned but I think all this talk about 64 bits is missing the point. IA-64 is more than just 64 bits and I sure hope AMD realizes that. Simply extending the x86 instruction set to 64 bits will not cut it in the market segment that Itanium is meant for. Maybe that is why Jerry said in the last conference call that AMD was not in competition with Itanium, he knows that Sledgehammer is only aimed at workstations (and servers, but not the same level of servers as Itanium) Itanium is in a whole different league than Sledgehammer and not because of 64 bits. Is this an accurate assesment in your opinion? Thanks, Epinephrine