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To: Rob Young who wrote (109153)	9/1/2000 5:36:12 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Rob, <So when Pete Bannon (who is one of Compaq's senior consultants .. an honor actually) trots out the difficulties with Itanium (obvious run-time problems, i.e. Java , and function calls, etc.) you can bet he knows what he is talking about and it doesn't fall into "FUD". He is showing where Itanium is weakest.> No he isn't. He's simply "tuning the fiddle." He's twisting the truth and using his expertise merely as a badge. When he says that IA-64 is "using a smart compiler on a dumb machine," that's FUD, pure and simple. Itanium is not a "dumb machine," and he should know that, considering he got to hear Intel's Itanium presentation last year at MPR. Most of his other arguments are strawmen, designed to make it seem like the IA-64 architects were born yesterday. I don't mean to take away from any of Mr. Bannon's accomplishments, or belittle his expertise, but his anti-Itanium arguments are pure "Steve Jobs"-style crap. Tenchusatsu