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To: Tony Viola who wrote (50833)3/19/1998 7:36:00 PM
From: Mike Wong  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Tony, Re: "Merced, architecturally, is a
mainframe on a chip"

Are you saying :
a. Merced chip performance is as fast as
mainframes,
OR ...
b. Merced is targeted at mainframe market

To achieve (a) is relatively simple.
To achieve (b) requires a channel architecture
for I/O performance, redundancy, hands off
error detection and recovery (hardware and
OS), software OS that is robust enough to
enable not dozens, but tens of thousands of
simultaneous users, and an glass house
marketing channel -- for starters. That's an
order of magnitude more difficult than (a).

Are you aware of Intel working on these
issues? Or is Intel targeting the
SUN/SiliconGraphics/UNIX workstation market
with a super chip? Thanks for the info.



To: Tony Viola who wrote (50833)3/20/1998 12:28:00 AM
From: BelowTheCrowd  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Tony,

Based on my experience working at Intel, I can safely say that the architecture guys might not have the slightest clue whether the manufacturing and process stuff is on schedule or not.

And certainly, Intel is VERY closed-mouthed about this kind of stuff, even to their own people, let alone outside partners.

The Intel and HP teams working on the project did have troubles together. Very different work cultures which tend to clash somewhat. After 2 years at HP I'm still somewhat uncomfortable with what I see as disorganized and reactive projects, compared to the Grove-led relentless and singlehanded pursuite of objectives.

Might your friend have worked for Apollo, the workstation maker? HP bought them around the time your friend would seem to have joined. Got a lot of good people that way.

mg


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