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To: Yousef who wrote (6402)	5/30/1998 2:59:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Sorry Yousef, but I do enjoy provoking you. That Merced delay must have (in the words of Stocky) touched your sensitive spot. Do you think Merced will run NT faster than Alpha does when Merced debuts in mid-2000. I'm still guessing no. Kevin

To: Yousef who wrote (6402)	6/1/1998 3:14:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 6843

Yousef, not Kevin, is the "technical fool" for downplaying DEC Alpha technology and claiming Merced delay doesn't matter. 1. Alpha will hit 1 GHz before 2000. Merced, because of delay, not till 1-July-2000 (at least) 2. NT 5.0 will support Alpha 64 bit addressing in a few months, Microsoft won't support 64 bit addressing on Merced for 14-17 months. 3. Maybe you didn't notice Spencer F. Katt's column in last PC Week: zdnet.com With the Digital-Compaq merger just about done, Compaq is pitching Microsoft to throw even more support behind NT on Alpha. One Digital insider reports that execs from the soon-to-be-combined entity made a recent sojourn to Redmond to ask Gates that Microsoft do three things: publicly acknowledge that Digital/Compaq/Tandem will have the best NT platform for the enterprise, accelerate plans for improving Alpha NT support and endorse Digital Unix as the best option for mixed Unix-NT sites. Gates apparently signed off on all three requests, which raises some interesting questions in the Mouser's mind about the future of Microsoft's enterprise alliance with Hewlett-Packard... ...and Intel. Petz