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To: Elmer who wrote (33652)	6/29/1998 12:01:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583681

Elmer: Oh no, not you again. You show me the advantages from an engineer point of view. As a consumer I could careless. Only thing that I care is performance versus cost. Slot 1 has no performance over socket 7 and cost more. Why? Maxwell

To: Elmer who wrote (33652)	6/29/1998 2:43:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583681

<#1 Split transaction bus protocol. Mainly for multi processor systems.> -- Technical BS. With current packaging technology, your multiprocessor systems are much more expensive and never will be in home/business PC. There is not too much to split in these interactive PCs. Therefore, your "multiprocessor" argument does not work. Have you ever seen a Winstone or BAPCO sysmarks for a multi-processor system? Let me know if you find one. <#2 Far better electrical characteristics of the GTL+ buffers make scaling to higher frequencies much easier.> How far? Do you ever understand what you are talking about? While 0.5-1.6 GTL swing is somewhat smaller than classical 0.4-2.0 swing, do you realize that the smaller signals are more susceptible to bus bouncing noise and signal reflections? Higher frequencies... do you know the reason why the DEC EV6 bus is not exactly a bus but rather a point-to-point connection to a bridge with a cross-switch circuitry? Because the classical bus topology does not work anymore for real high-frequency intercommunications between processors distributed over a mainboard. For this reason the Intel Slot1/2/m "bus" has no future, just for this technical reason. That's why you see the Slot1 is fading out, 4 processor limitations, etc., etc. Bye, "expert".