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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (85846)	7/26/2002 1:37:27 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

wbmw, Which do you think those other 1-3 64-bit platforms could be? Your guess is as good as mine. Since the MSFT spokesperson said it has to be volume platform, I think it would exclude Alpha and HP Risc systems. Sparc could be it, but there is too much politics involved, making it near 0 probability. Unless MSFT has some cunning plan to eliminate Solaris / consulting / support revenue by offering off the shelf software for sparc, and let the rest of the world compare Sparc hardware running identical software ... Power4 could be a possibility, another would be the incompatible implementation of x86 by Intel. For other choices, you would have to go below the x86 to either ARM or MIPS. Joe