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To: Ali Chen who wrote (30979)	4/4/1998 12:57:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573772

<Do you know that there is NO commercial compiler in the world that supports this mode of operation? > Ali, do you really expect people to belive this claim? Intel presented statistics which showed that the average user could expect an error from their FDIV bug only once every 25,000 years, yet they were compelled to replace all pentium processors. I have provided a link to AMD's own admission of their FPU bug, you have made a claim that has all the authority of a fart. Backup your claim or we will consider it to be just more of your methane gas. Your track record is about as good as Fuchi's when it comes to accuracy. Your claim that Intel's 100mhz bus won't result in any significant performance improvement will have to face the facts in a couple of weeks. My guess is that your claim here was just another fart too. We'll see soon. Fuchi's Pal, Elmer

To: Ali Chen who wrote (30979)	4/4/1998 1:13:00 AM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573772

Ali Intel may be facing more competition in high end. Bloomberg just released note on new Elbrus - E2K which was designed by 200 Russian scientists and financed by Sun Microsystems. The older version of Elbrus already running in test sparc systems in the field trials that is by companies with high computational requirements. That is coming when a lot of intel investors wrote off sparc as a contender for future high end. E2K is using post-RISC (whatever that means) approach. It is characterized as most effective and the fastest processor in the world. It will likely be more effective in computational operation than Merced. The post-RISC approach was originally designed for Russian super-computers and completely different (whatever that means) from currently used x86 or RISC platforms. It was mentioned that because of the difficulties in economy Russian designers had to concentrate on logic and effectiveness rather than rely on hardware/technology. And "economic" approach paid-off in E2K by not only making it the fastest but also most efficient with a small transistor count. The elbrus team is currently in negotiations for foundry and/or licesing of the chip to Sun and other manufacturers. So we might see Paul screaming commies again soon. Regards -Albert ps it is expected that E2K may make to western markets (us included) by 2000.