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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (29893)	2/28/2001 6:50:31 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 275872

Itanic locked Inattic for IDF theregister.co.uk So for the second successive Developer Forum, Intel will keep baby Itanic locked out of sight in the attic. That baby Itanic is slow, overweight and prone to high temperatures is not to be unexpected in an infant. But so "hideously ugly" is Itanic, according to recent benchmarks, that visiting press will have to make do with hearing screams and crying from upstairs. Recent figures posted by CERN labs' Fons Rademakers, a Linux cluster guru, show a two-way 733Mhz IA-64 running a technical data analysis benchmark at a quarter of the speed of an equivalently-clocked two-way Xeon. Figures confirmed by testers we've spoken to confirm this. Performance sucks. "The good thing is that the programs runs correctly," concludes Rademarkers. "However, as it stands now it looks like Merced will be a major dud." . . . Perhaps, taking a leaf from the British royal family, Chipzilla can confine its handicapped offspring upstairs for good - and pretend it never was born? ®