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To: Paul Engel who wrote (113309)	10/12/2000 3:01:49 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Intel Investors - Compaq Starts their ITanium push. It;s a rather slow start - with an "on-line" ITanium system for customer development and evaluation. Paul {=============================} biz.yahoo.com Thursday October 12, 12:50 pm Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: Compaq Computer Corporation Compaq Offers First Free Online Test Drive of IA64 Systems; Compaq Partners Can Try Out New Technology Behind a Secure Firewall HOUSTON, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ - news) is the world's first platform vendor to offer the information technology community the opportunity to try out the emerging Intel Itanium 64-bit processor technology via Compaq's groundbreaking New Technologies Test Drive program. Compaq New Technologies Test Drive is a year-old program that allows visitors worldwide to sample Compaq's industry-leading Alpha and ProLiant server technology online for free. Further, member companies of the Compaq Solutions Alliance (www.compaq.com/csa) can securely access behind a firewall Compaq's IA64 ProLiant Server and other Compaq systems, for in-depth testing of legacy code and development work. The popular Test Drive website (http://www.testdrive.compaq.com) has generated more than four million hits as visitors have tried out more than 40,000 ``test drives'' of Compaq and partner products. ``This is the only Web site where developers can, without charge, access an IA64 system running Linux,'' said Matti Virtanen, Compaq Vice President for Worldwide Distribution Channels. ``We will also continue to add value for our CSA members by incorporating additional operating systems, allowing them to work securely on the IA64 behind a firewall and giving them a competitive advantage with this new platform.'' About Compaq Compaq Computer Corporation, a Fortune Global 100 company, is the largest supplier of computing systems in the world. Compaq designs, develops, manufactures, and markets hardware, software, solutions, and services, including industry-leading enterprise computing solutions, fault-tolerant business-critical solutions, and communications products, commercial desktop and portable products, and consumer PCs. Compaq products and services are sold in more than 200 countries directly to businesses, through a network of authorized Compaq marketing partners, and directly to businesses and consumers through Compaq's e-commerce Web site at compaq.com. Compaq markets its products and services primarily to customers from the business, home, government, and education sectors. Customer support and information about Compaq and its products and services are available at compaq.com. Compaq and the Compaq logo Registered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. This financial discussion contains forward- looking statements based on current expectations that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The potential risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially include: delays in the implementation of changes in delivery models, component shortages, increased competitive environment and pricing pressures, delays in product rollout schedules, slow acceptance for new form factors, changes in product, customer and geographic sales mix, employee retention, the financial condition of resellers, delays in new systems implementation, operational inefficiencies related to sales cycles, equity investment volatility, emerging market political or economic instability and disruptions related to restructuring actions. Further information on the factors that could affect Compaq's financial results is included in Compaq's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, including the latest Annual Report on Form 10-K and the latest quarterly report on Form 10-Q. SOURCE: Compaq Computer Corporation

To: Paul Engel who wrote (113309)	10/12/2000 3:33:37 PM
From: Windsock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul - Re: "If it's true, then their SMP Athlon Demo at the MicroProcessor forum just 3 days ago was a TOTAL HOAX !!" Apparently the Demo was AMD trickery. Message 14565963 Quoting and translating: C't ************** There was no public demonstration of a running MP system as suggested by the AMD press release. Rather AMD showed a system with two Athlons (1.2 GHz, FSB266) and DDR-SDRAM behind closed doors on the 15th floor of Fairmont Hotel. However AMD's marketing manager Bob Mitton refused to show the inside of the system - probably some kind of raw assembled prototype. Mitton waited until the quarterly results were announced before he commented on the Mustang. Like the 760MP chipset the Mustang should debut in the first half of 2001. Other than the larger cache it won't feature any other architectural improvements, especially not an improved branch prediction unit as reported by various news services. Rich Heye of AMD's Microprocessor Division explained at the Forum that AMD aims primarily at the server business with the dual Athlon. However frontend technology, especially DDR RAM is not of primary interest in the server business, at least not now as some representatives from renowned server companies pointed out to newbie AMD during an open discussion. In this business performance is less important than reliability which has yet to be proven as far as DDR-SDRAM is concerned. ************ Tony, the last part confirms that your are dead on target about RAS in the service business.