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To: Tony Viola who wrote (50838)	3/19/1998 9:37:00 PM
From: CamelJockey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony: Excellent breakdown on Merced and Intel's intended actions. Thanks for the info. CJ

To: Tony Viola who wrote (50838)	3/19/1998 11:17:00 PM
From: Mike Wong	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Thanks for a most informative post. Based on your info, methinks Intel is at least 10 years away from serious mainframe ambitions (dependency on Microsoft for mainframe OS). Re:"I think Paul said Merced will scale up to 256 processors." AND ..... Re: "The Sun Starfire series, that scales up to 64 way Sparcs, would be an obvious target, to me." I think you are on the money with that call. I think McNealy, is smart enough to put SPARC on the Merced instead of trying to beat it. Silicon is a volume based business. Scott knows he cannot beat Intel's unit cost on silicon, but he sure as heck can beat NT in server performance for at least 5 years (2 major releases of NT). Does anybody know how big the workstation market is relative to the PC market so one can do some market-share/demand-growth assumptions to extrapolate Intel's revenue oppotunity??

To: Tony Viola who wrote (50838)	3/19/1998 11:49:00 PM
From: Gary Kao	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

While the poor scalability of NT is well-known, I thought most flavors of UNIX already support SMP all the way up to 256 CPU's? Furthermore, I was under the impression that Merced in fact is designed from the ground-up to work with HP-Unix, SCO's Unix, and other such flavors? Thus, Merced may not in fact be so dependent on NT and MSFT? Comments on this? Gary >I think Paul said Merced will scale up to 256 processors. However, the scalability of NT is well known to need a lot of improvement, so it will be one of the big bottlenecks in Merced based systems, in terms of performance, to get to rivaling mainframes.