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To: Rob Young who wrote (109077)	8/31/2000 10:51:36 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Rob, re supercomputers, are they really that important to the business of a company like Compaq or IBM? I mean, we see those deep blue, or whatever pieces on IBM's RS6000 top machine beating some world chess champion. Big deal. For a while, I believe Sandia Labs had the most powerful supercomputer, built out of 9000+ Pentium Pros. >Power4? 21364 in the Wildfire follow-on aka Marvel. No Problemo! This has me, a computer type, a bit confused. Would you care to set aside the tongue in cheek for a sec. and rank, IYHO, Itanium, Alpha, Power4, USIII, just for kicks? Pick some benchmark metric that you think is fair (if possible). We won't hold you to any of it, just for grins, you know? Tony

To: Rob Young who wrote (109077)	8/31/2000 1:31:31 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Rob, the point was that you have constantly poked fun at the Itanium schedule slips, yet you conveniently brush off the Alpha schedule slips as if they don't matter. I fully expect a 733 MHz Itanium to be the equivalent of a 1 GHz 21264 Alpha. That worried me for a while, considering Intel's apparent difficulty to get to 800 MHz and the possibility that Alpha will reach 1 GHz this year. But then I read about the 1 GHz Alpha coming out next year: Message 14277724 So it seems that Intel isn't the only one who has been slipping up. What sayeth you, if Itanium debuts (at least in pilot systems) in a month or two and they demonstrate much better performance than the current Alphas? Nah, that can't happen, since there will always be a faster Alpha somewhere around the corner ... Tenchusatsu