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To: Joe NYC who wrote (4712)	8/12/2000 2:02:02 AM
From: chic_hearne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: I think Sledgehammer has a design philosophy that is similar to IBM Power4 Joe, I hope you are right, because Power4 is a killer processor. That article makes you think that Intel had a few too many crack hits before picking the EPIC architecture. It just doesn't make any sense to me. We'll find out soon when we see some benchmarks and find out what Itanium is all about. chic

To: Joe NYC who wrote (4712)	8/12/2000 10:01:21 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Joe, re:Merced I have always considered Intel supporting Rambus a plan to "corner" a part of the hardware. Bring back proprietary hardware if you will. I speculate that Merced, with a completely new programming language, came from that same line of thinking. It may not be the best solution, but if we can get it working first, it may be the future. Because of that, Sledgehammer has potential. steve