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To: Mani1 who wrote (100299)	3/27/2000 6:31:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577009

RE:"But it is not too late, he (Paul) is telling us the Sledgehammer will be a disaster, just like he told us Athlon will be a disaster. We need to start to listen to him before we lose everything! AMD will be later with Sledgehammer than Merced...but they will have learned that Sledgehammer must scale...while whomever designed the Merced, forgot.... Jim

To: Mani1 who wrote (100299)	3/27/2000 8:49:00 PM
From: RDM	Respond to of 1577009

I consider the plan for sledgehammer to be best idea of AMD in a string of good ideas starting with the Athlon. Tje Sledgehammer concept was, in part, began due to a suggestion of IBM based on their market experiences and it clearly focuses on what I want in fast computer. It addresses directly what has been missing in X86 cpus in comparison to the workstation chips; floating point speed particularly with double precision numbers. The Sledgehammer should remove the performance advantage the 64 bit chips have enjoyed for some time in applications for virtual reality games and for numeric workstations. I am looking forward it!