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To: Elmer who wrote (81020)5/30/2002 12:58:41 AM
From: wanna_bmwRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 275872
 
Elmer, Re: "For those who failed to notice, Itanium2 posts astonishing Floating Point scores. Destroying everything else on earth including Power4."

Which is irrelevant, since AMD has Hammer, an unproven architecture on an unproven process, with an unproven host protocol and unproven topology from a company with unproven OEM relations. Isn't it clear to you, too, that the Itanic is sunk??

wbmw



To: Elmer who wrote (81020)5/30/2002 1:44:10 AM
From: Jim McMannisRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
RE:"Alpha has been under active development for years and will continue for several years to come.

Yeah but a 10 year old design?...I hope iTanium could best it on something.

RE:" For those who failed to notice, Itanium2 posts astonishing Floating Point scores. Destroying everything else on earth including Power4""

How could we miss it...you posted it a lot today.
Lemmie guess what benchmark Intel will use to sell the itanium...

How will the Hammer do on SpecFP?

Jim