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To: Karl who wrote (4691)	4/14/1998 11:12:00 AM
From: Verssen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

All I can say is that I am sorry about my previous post. I am flabbergasted. And I did put my money where...

To: Karl who wrote (4691)	4/14/1998 11:20:00 AM
From: Mark Dalton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

The important things in the announcement were the product road maps, spinning off of MIPS, working with Intel & MS and explaining the markets. (DISCLAIMER: I work for SGI/Cray, this is just from the announcements/talk with some explanations). Intel is not yet ready for moderate to high performance computing. (For performance you need bandwidth, stability under large loads, etc.). News of SGI working with Intel is significant and that the O2s to Onyx2's are in a path to move to Intel running Irix (with Microsoft interoperability) will offer stability, performance, and scalability. The Wintel box will offer better graphics capabilities, and a path to better Wintel performance. The Windows NT stability/scalability is still a issue, so there is the Irix/MIPS and eventually Irix/Intel with Microsoft interoperability. Which would allow Wintel customers to grow their systems and new customers that require 100% uptime with a 24x7 schedule under heavy loads. Also it let current customers know that SGI is still supporting the current line and there will be continued growth and speedups. They can rest assured they don't have to move to Wintel, this would especially be a concern of large graphics/entertainment, Government, automobile and other large scale computing/graphics industries. They require high bandwidth, large data, high reliability. As a FYI, the SGI/Cray T3D/T3Es have scaled to over 1,000 CPUs for years, and has been a regular product. Mark