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To: Scumbria who wrote (26054)	4/20/1998 1:24:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 33344

Scumbria, Do you doubt that Microsoft will suck up every ounce of CPU power Merced has to offer? It depends on type of applications that will around when Merced is widely used. Microsoft has already announced that voice will be the primary input to Windows in the next decade. High quality speech recognition will tax any CPU to the limit. Throw in 3-D graphics and a JIT compiler and you have need for a very high performance system. You can do all of it already on a high end P-II. Just think of the performance you will be able to buy in next decade even from an entry level CPU. MXi or Mendocino - an entry level CPUs next year - will be able to do all that, and we not even be in the next decade yet. Joe

To: Scumbria who wrote (26054)	4/20/1998 1:53:00 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 33344

Scumbria, RE:Do you doubt that Microsoft will suck up every ounce of CPU power Merced has to offer? Microsoft has already announced that voice will be the primary input to Windows in the next decade. High quality speech recognition will tax any CPU to the limit. Throw in 3-D graphics and a JIT compiler and you have need for a very high performance system. Window's demand for CPU power will explode in the next few years. According to Amdahl's law, MP is the only way to continue up the performance curve. Well, Microsoft will have to start from scratch in developing an OS to take full advantage of Merced and I think this will take a very long time. Right? RE:Amdahl's law For compute intensive tasks, sure. For speech recognition, a well designed program is more crucial than hardware. We're in the age of super-scalar CPUs. It's all in the software. Bob