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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (96563)	3/3/2000 1:11:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571949

Eric, MSFT will support sledgehammer period. Just like they supported 3dnow and 3dnow2. With Athlon running x-box look for AMD/Msft to be working even closer together. regards, Kash

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (96563)	3/3/2000 1:32:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571949

Eric, What the 386 and 486 ran is not at issue, those designs where the only viable choice. 386 was as good or better 8086/286 (thanks fo higher clock speeds) than 8086/286, 486 was better 8086/286/386 than 8086/286/386. Sledgehammer will be better 8086, 286, 386, ... P3 Coppermine, Athlon than all of those chips, probably on par with Willamette. AMD is not in such a position to dictate the direction of CPU design Intel has been dictating. AMD presents alternatives. More and more often attractive alternative to consumers. nor is Microsoft even giving lip service to it's plans to support a 64 bit AMD design. Have I claimed ever claimed that Microsoft has a 64 bit Sledgehammer OS? I pointed out that Given the 32bit Windows 2000 codebase + 64bit Merced codebase, 64 bit SledgeHammer OS would comperatively be a smaller project. Microsoft always wanted NT/Win2K to be multiplatform (it sounds good in press releases), and SledgeHammer may present an inexpensive way to achieve it. Sledgehammer will be a waste of effort if no OS exists. How so? You havn't presented one coherent argument supporting this opinion. Joe