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To: Ali Chen who wrote (6409)	5/30/1998 11:43:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 6843

All, have fun: <Delayed (Merced)> Fri, 29 May 1998 23:07:11 GMT From: missmanp@milo.cfw.com Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Intel announced today that it is changing the name of its Merced architecture to Delayed, as it seems more fitting to the machine's progress. "After all", says Richard Dumas, head of the Advanced Architecture Lab, "we've successfully delayed from January of 1998, to December of 1998, then slickly in one giant step to December of 1999, and now we are accross the bridge into the next millenium, probably into late 2000." In keeping with this trend, Intel is considering adding digital delay lines as part of Delayed's new architectural enhancements. This will not only delay delivery again, but will delay all the bits going into and out from the processor, thus making internal operation more stable, albeit lots slower. The design team at Digital, when asked how this would affect plans to release the 1 Ghz Alpha before Delayed hits the streets, said they were planning to take a three month vacation to the Bahamas, effective immediately, and would be available for comment when they returned. Jerry Sanders at AMD said that not only would the K7 and K8 be out by then, but work should be well underway on the K9. However, he admitted, he was a bit afraid that the advanced K9 design might have trouble with flea infestations. He stated that they were working with an unnamed animal collar manufacturer to see if such a device could be used with a Slot C design. At HP, the mood was a bit more more downbeat. HP's Director of Advanced RISC Technologies said, "when we gave Intel the design for Delayed, we thought they might be able to actually get a chip out before the next Ice Age. As it stands now, we'll get a 4 GHz PA-RISC chip out the door before Delayed hits first silicon." SGI, which had planned to cancel its MIPS processor in the face of Delayed, has decided to go forward with MIPS 20000 and 30000 series. They believe thay will have a 256 bit processor out when the initial 64 bit Delayed chip hits the streets. The President of Sun Microsystems simply smiled and said, "Delayed, ah, no comment". On the good side, the FTC may drop its probe of Intel, saying that it looked like Intel's market dominance problem was taking care of itself. Paul Missman -------------- end of Usenet message -------- A little fun would not heart these days... - Ali

To: Ali Chen who wrote (6409)	5/30/1998 11:46:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

<Could you share your inspiration with us, clueless? I see the only "clue" about Merced: the cludgy, clumsy and sluggish architecture. Eclectic and wrong combination of old ideas. > Ali, for someone who has demonstrated his lack of knowledge many times, how is it that you are now expert enough on Intel's future architecture that you can call it cludgy, chumsy and sluggish? No one has any real details on Merced but you seem to have already drawn conclusions. You are either a brilliant architect with inside information or someone who is somewhat less gifted and not smart enough to realize your own ignorance. Based on your history I suspect you are not a brilliant architect. EP