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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (109107)	8/31/2000 2:02:10 PM
From: Rob Young	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." Of course the big difference here is one is a shipping product and the other isn't. PA8600 is past expected shipping date so we can stick Alpha at 1 GHz, USIII, PA86000 in the same bin? No. USIII isn't a shipping part. 21264 is, the 1 GHz version isn't. Hair splitting? Perhaps. But 21264 is still at the top of the Spec performance heap and will be doing much better RSN in tpmC without being at 1 GHz. "I fully expect a 733 MHz Itanium to be the equivalent of a 1 GHz 21264 Alpha." That means nothing. Tell me what that means. "Intel's apparent difficulty to get to 800 MHz" That my friend is the least of their concerns. Their greatest concerns are working OSes (that are beyond alpha stage... ) Robust compilers. Get past those little humps maybe we start talking about other things. "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" Sure... which OS ;-) Any of them beyond a raw alpha stage yet? ;-) "they demonstrate much better performance than the current Alphas" That means nothing. Tell me what you mean by "performance." --- "Depends on what your definition of IS is...." Rob