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To: Elmer who wrote (126697)	2/6/2001 6:48:24 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Elmer - Re: "Consider the predicament AMD was in. Socket7 was hopelessly out of date, they were prohibited from using Intel's Split transaction bus architecture, and they had never designed anything of their own. They did the only thing possible at the time, they licensed Alpha's EV6 bus design from DEC. If you remember, they were claiming at the time they could simply replace the bios and run Athlon in Alpha boards! Well, things didn't quite work out as planned and AMD is finally admitting defeat and throwing in the towel. They simply can't get SMP to work" I guess Dirk Meyer doesn't know anything about SMP or chip sets ! Paul

To: Elmer who wrote (126697)	2/6/2001 7:09:27 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Elmer, <If you remember, they were claiming at the time they could simply replace the bios and run Athlon in Alpha boards! Well, things didn't quite work out as planned ...> Geez, what a surprise. The Alpha platform was pretty much made for machines that cost at least ten times as much as Xeon-based machines. Yet the 'Droids thought AMD could have leveraged the existing Alpha infrastructure into machines that they hoped would have hit the same price targets as a Pentium 4 desktop. It just doesn't work that way. Tenchusatsu