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To: jim kelley who wrote (47707)	6/15/1998 5:40:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Jim - Hence, the need for the next generation As I said in my response to your post on the CPQ thread, the current chipset and bus architecture supports 14 processors. The new one has support for a much larger number, I have heard 64 and 96, I think 64 is right. The memory bus also supports 2 GBPS transfers (or that's the target I guess). Sun has a strong offering in the high end (as you probably know they acquired the dynabus technology and grabbed the bus performance lead last year). The new Alpha bus should compete well against dynabus if it is as good as claimed. HWP does not currently have a very strong offering in the high end, the T500 is very long in the tooth, has slow I/O by todays standards, and weak memory support. A 4-way PII server will kick it with little difficulty. They are not really in the running at the moment.