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To: Paul Engel who wrote (126894)	2/8/2001 8:29:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Does somebody have a 64 bit x86 CPU ? Does anybody have an IA-64 CPU? Intel has been going to ship this tragedy on a chip "next month" for the last year. And it was originally scheduled for 1988 - and the performance is about right to meet 1988 expectations. IA-64 is a strategic blunder on the level of RDRAM. As a supplement to extending X86 it would merely have been a waste, like iapx432 and i860, but as a substitute for extending X86, while the competition IS extending X86, it's one heck of a screwup. As we've all said about Intel's tying their fate to RDRAM with no backup plan we can now say about their equally bizarre 64 bit strategy; "what were they thinking?" Dan