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To: Barry Grossman who wrote (59773)	7/12/1998 2:00:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Barry - I was really referring to the range of high end tasks for which Merced was targeted, and pointing out that Xeon can do almost all of that now. With a 64 gig address space, it has more capability than any high end systems are currently using, although I expect that to change as large in-memory databases become more practical. I would expect true 64 bit systems to take up this role in about 3 years as the transition to merced and follow-on processors picks up steam. The real test for Xeon in the high end is whether MSFT can get software which uses this capability and is truely enterprise ready in the window ahead of Merced, and whether the market accepts that capability. I would give that about a 50-50 based on current MSFT schedules. Intel is doing a lot to enable some of the more sophisticated capabilities of Xeon but they can not do it alone.