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To: mozek who wrote (26845)	5/31/1998 10:48:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Mozek - FX!32 is slower than Alpha native but is faster than current Pentium. Tests at MSFT have shown that current high end Alpha parts outperform 350MHZ Pentium running the same Pentium binaries. It is also expected to outperform Merced running 32 bit binaries. In other words, if you have 32 bit Intel applications your fastest processor will probably be Alpha, even faster than Merced which will run the 32 bit code in silicon. Running 32 bit apps that are recompiled for native Alpha, the Alpha has about a 50% advantage over the fastest Pentium technology in MSFT tests. There are obviously no 64 bit Pentium apps, but apps that have both 32 bit and 64 bit flavors (such as apps that run both on DEC Unix and Pentium) run about twice as fast on Alpha. This could be due to a lot of other factors also, such as the much larger memory space available in 64 bit mode. This looks pretty good for Alpha from a technology point of view, the hard part is getting the product and marketing story together, something CPQ has been good at in the general market in the past but not in the high end IT world.