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To: Yougang Xiao who wrote (97764)	3/10/2000 1:04:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570760

Yougang, It seems likely that the Microsoft xbox reference platform will use both Intel and AMD CPU's. Why should they pick one over the other? Maybe the programming model will use an abstraction layer which makes them SSE/3DNow! independent. Scumbria

To: Yougang Xiao who wrote (97764)	3/10/2000 1:11:00 AM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570760

<This WSJ story on xbox is puzzling: Dean Takahashi knows intimately the whole process of creating xbox, yet does not mention cpu vendor for xbox?> Yes, that IS interesting.

To: Yougang Xiao who wrote (97764)	3/10/2000 8:09:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1570760

Yougang, A part of that article "As head of the X-Box's software effort, Mr. Allard chose to use a bare-bones version of the software behind the Windows 2000 operating system, known for its stability, as well as the DirectX software." Lends credibility to the well known optimization for the Athlon that Win2K has undergone. When it is stripped down for the xbox it will have only optimised xbox code for the Athlon? Still the same can also be done for the P-III in Win2k so it not a sure sign as the volume will support two versions Bill