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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (154511)	1/9/2002 3:19:29 PM
From: fingolfen	Respond to of 186894

Sure it comes from the top down. Also, what exceptional talent they did have, like Dirk Meyer, they probably peter principled. These guys probably sit around a table wondering what they "can" make rather than what they "should" make. When that fails, they "make off" with the loot, just in case. Can you blame them though?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (154511)	1/9/2002 3:41:01 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 186894

Jim, Re: "These guys probably sit around a table wondering what they "can" make rather than what they "should" make. When that fails, they "make off" with the loot, just in case." That reminds me of that "first revision" of Hammer from Hans DeVries where he speculated it would have all kinds of features, but later all it turned out to be was a K7 with better branch prediction and TLBs, two extra pipeline stages, and an integrated memory controller (and let's not forget x86-64). It hardly can be considered 8th generation, since the most prominent feature, 64-bit support, will probably not be supported by a major OS, even years after launch. It makes you wonder how people like Fred Webber could have found this to be a much better idea than simply making the best use out of a 32-bit core. Jerry Sanders probably figured that Intel would stumble with IA-64, so he thought he could get the entire x86 market in one fell swoop, hoping that Intel put all their eggs in one fallible basket. Of course, as it turned out, Intel is not nearly ready to abandon IA-32, and AMD will have a tougher time than they thought getting their 64-bit extension accepted by the industry. While I respect Fred Webber, Dirk Meyer, and the rest of those engineers, I think they dropped the ball on this. wbmw