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To: SunSpot who wrote (47278)	6/26/2000 1:24:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

SunSpot - the problem with IA64, IMO, is that in its first iteration, it is likely to be a lot slower than IA32 for almost every job. That will be as true for Linux as for MSFT. Willamette will suck the doors off of Itanium. Most jobs that need big address space can use the 36 bit address space and get most of the benefit while still running in IA32 architectures. So it doesn't really matter that the 64 bit version of Win2K is still a ways away from production - the real target was and is McKinley, not Merced.

To: SunSpot who wrote (47278)	6/26/2000 7:09:00 PM
From: ericneu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

I have seen no 64-bit advertisement for Microsoft Office, Corel's office suite etc., and in fact, not even an announcement. People really don't care. It's the same with our customers, they don't ask for 64-bit. --- Have you considered the fact that Intel isn't targeting IA-64 for the desktop? IA-64 is all about the back-end of the network - massive databases, transaction processing, etc. Like most technologies, processors are tools. Designers try to choose the best tool for the job. IA-64 is the wrong tool for the desktop in the forseeable future. - Eric