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To: Bilow who wrote (7363)9/2/2000 1:19:51 AM
From: Ali ChenRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Carl, <Somewhat ironic that it is an article at fool.com...>

What could we possibly understand in systems performance?

Or in copper heat sinks? <g>

Regards,
- Ali



To: Bilow who wrote (7363)9/2/2000 5:11:00 AM
From: PetzRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Carl, <The iTanium "EPIC" approach to processor design is a greedy pig for memory bandwidth>

I believe the article is right. Couldn't they have used a "Harvard Architecture" with seperate busses for instruction memory and data memory to get around this? If you're not tied to x86, why not?

Petz