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To: tejek who wrote (121023)	7/27/2000 10:31:46 AM
From: stribe30	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574786

Tejek: Some technical talk about the Sledgehammer musings from Aces Hardware that I thought might interest you. One fella quoted Drew Prarie from the GA Hardware site as saying the Sledgehammer time frame hadn't been accelerated.. he had mentioned somewhere else in that interview about Sledgehammer being CMP capable (or maybe it was SMP.. I get my acronyms mixed up) This led one of our fairly knowledgeable techie guys to comment: "I find it interesting that Drew states Sledgehammer will be CMP capable, What I have read previously indicates that the initial Sledgehammer will have a single processor core. Drew's statement in this article seems to indicate that Sledgehammer will be dual processor core from the start. If true, this alone would constitute an acceleration of the Sledgehammer timetable." aceshardware.com Later in the thread, he states: "One potential is that the Mustang designers got carried away with their "other enhancements" to the T-Bird core and ended up with a full implementation of x86-64. This wouldn't be the Sledgehammer, since it would have been designed by the Mustang design team, thus making Drew's statement true. But, the articles from The Register would also effectively be true. The first true Sledgehammer, actually designed by the Sledgehammer design team, could have been redefined as the CMP core that was supposed to follow, thus explaining Sledgehammer's launch being pushed back to Q4 2001." aceshardware.com Makes for interesting reading anyhow. (I hope)